Mayor Jim Bulkley did some reflecting on 2019 Monday night.

Sen. Bruce Bostelman of Brainard made it official Monday.

The National Weather service said Columbus got up to three inches of snow in some areas Friday.

A wave of severe winter weather is moving through eastern Nebraska.

Columbus High School announced its basketball games against Lexington have been pushed back because of the forecast.

It looks like eastern Nebraska will see a wintry start to the weekend.

The chamber said the company's legitimacy is suspect and wants to remind local merchants and organizations to ask lots of questions if they get calls like this.

One day after state lawmakers unveiled their property tax relief plan for 2020, Governor Pete Ricketts has put his on the table.

Try this on for size.

A 15 percent cut in the property taxes you pay to your school district.

CCH said blood loss is the culprit of 35 percent of pre-hospital deaths.

The Colfax County Board of Commissioners has given the okay for refugee resettlement.

If the levee washed away, there would be nothing to protect the town from floodwater.

Nebraska's prisons, which are bulging at the seems, are front and center in an Omaha federal courtroom today (Monday).

The Nebraska Secretary of State's office says requests for early ballots can be submitted as early as next week.

A state audit on the Platte County Agricultural Society says the organization needs to improve internal control over financial reporting and compliance with laws and regulations.

Nebraska voters who want to cast an early ballot in the upcoming primary election can request their ballot as early as next week.

Jeffrey Wegener was originally scheduled to appear in Platte County Court Thursday afternoon.

We are learning more and more details in the arrest of fired Pilger Village Clerk Kimberly Neiman; details surfacing in lengthy court records examined by News Channel Nebraska.

A Columbus man has been sentenced to 300 days behind bars for the death of his passenger after the vehicle they were in crashed.

More bad news today for the former Pilger Village Clerk who was arrested yesterday.
Kimberly Nieman—once hailed as a hero in the aftermath of twin tornadoes that leveled the town in 2014— is now facing a total of 17 criminal charges.

A Columbus man has been sentenced to 300 days behind bars for the death of his passenger after the vehicle they were in crashed.

A Columbus man has been sentenced to 300 days behind bars for the death of his passenger after the vehicle they were in crashed.

The former Pilger Village Clerk—once hailed as a hero in the aftermath of twin tornadoes that leveled the town in 2014— has been arrested and is facing several counts of theft some dating back to 2006.

The former Pilger Village Clerk, once hailed as a hero in the aftermath of twin tornadoes that leveled the town in 2014, was arrested today charged with several counts of theft some dating back to 2006.

Rent, groceries and medical bills are all things that can take a chunk out of your wallet.

CPD said officers are staking out in unmarked vehicles.

In the aftermath of President Trump’s decision to kill a top Iranian army leader, Omaha Congressman Don Bacon is defending the killing and sees no need to tie the president’s military hands.

Sen. Mike Moser of Columbus shared what he thinks will be the biggest issues of the 2020 session.

Residents in the Columbus area are now reporting drone sightings, according to law enforcement.

Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse getting a school-yard smack-down from an unlikely source—a fellow Senate Republican.

As state lawmakers return to Lincoln tomorrow continuing to search for answers to Nebraska's property tax problem, one key lawmaker wants to end what she calls a tax "trick."

The Columbus City Council took a step toward getting a jump on the emerald ash borer before it becomes a problem here. 

The Hastings Tigers remained perfect with a victory over Columbus on Friday, setting themselves up for a showdown with undefeated Scottsbluff.

The Lady Bearcats of Scottsbluff are heading to the GNAC Championship after pulling away from Columbus in the fourth quarter.

Scottsbluff remains undefeated on the season, beating North Platte 59-32

Police said the man is accused of committing the assault last week.

This weekend, an organization will be helping those will disabilities get ready for a big event that happens in February.

Check out the January Columbus Connection.

It happened shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Columbus Community Hospital celebrated the first baby they delivered in 2020.

A man and woman are dead and an Omaha police officer is recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg following a New Year’s Eve shoot-out in a public housing high-rise on the city’s north side.

A man and woman are dead and an Omaha police officer is recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg following a shoot-out in a public housing high-rise on the city's north side.

Nebraska roads saw a deadly rise in fatal crashes in 2019. State leaders say the failure to buckle up was a major factor.

Folks in and around Omaha felt the wrath of three rivers earlier this year, the Platte, Elkhorn and Missouri all coming out of their banks.

When the year 2020 rings in, two new laws at the federal and state levels take effect.

A Columbus man is accused of embezzling a local business.

Two unnamed teen-agers remain persons of interest in the 6-month-old deadly crash that killed four Gretna High School girls, a crash that involved alcohol and speeding.

Two unnamed teen-agers remain persons of interest in the 6-month-old deadly crash that killed four Gretna High School girls, a crash that involved alcohol and speeding.

An almost 90-mile stretch of Interstate 80 was still closed Monday morning as wreckers and rescue officials worked to clear out stranded vehicles.

Vehicles sliding off roads and into ditches was a common theme Sunday due to snow, blowing snow and slick travel conditions.

Eastern Nebraska is getting drenched this weekend.

The Nebraska Department of Transportation says most of the highways in the state are completely covered with snow or ice on Sunday morning.

Rain Friday evening is expected to turn into freezing rain and then snow, potentially dropping a foot of snow on some portions of north-central Nebraska.

Omaha's new housing inspection plan scheduled to take effect January 1 has been given the green light.

This week a federal judge has denied a landlord group's request for a temporary injunction that would have put the plan on hold.

On Monday, Jan Berry went to work at Paws and Claws Adoption Center and found someone had broken into the building.

Columbus Community Hospital said they're seeing a lot of people coming in with fevers, chills and body aches.

Traffic deaths in Nebraska continue to escalate.

For the the fourth straight year the number of road-related fatalities is likely to increase.

The economic development arm of a Nebraska-based Native American tribe is once again pumping big money into a campaign to legalize casino gambling.

Loup Power District released a statement on Friday saying retail rates will remain unchanged.

A CPD spokesman said it was part of an online prostitution sting operation.

There are some folks in Columbus who are working to make sure everyone is having a Merry Christmas.

It happened around 1:30 p.m. on Highway 81 near Platte Center.

Authorities say two people have died in a car accident in Polk County on Wednesday.

Columbus High senior Joey Braasch has made it official: He's going to be a Wyoming Cowboy.

Omaha City Councilman Vinny Palermo has been sentenced to four years probation with 120 hours of community service and fined $35,000 after pleading guilty to three misdemeanor counts of failing to file his federal tax returns for three different years.

With flu cases on the rise in Nebraska, Columbus Community Hospital is taking precautions.