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STRATTON, Neb. — Thanks to the American Red Cross, a rural Stratton family is living in a McCook motel after losing their rural Stratton home in a Sunday night fire. Amber Van Dinter said the family of five was able to evacuate the home near the Kansas border after an electrical fire broke out in the basement about 5 p.m...

DENVER — The family of a McCook fighter pilot lost in the Vietnam war is mentioned in a Politico article about a man who recently retired after more than a decade reuniting the remains of more than 3,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines with their families...

McCOOK, Neb. — A bill that could do away with an important source of revenue for Red Willow County is unlikely to make it out of committee this year, a representative of the Nebraska Association of County Officials told commissioners Monday. The county often helps balance its annual budget using funds transferred from the inheritance tax fund, this year a half-million dollars if needed...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol removed from the road 12 impaired drivers as part of a special enforcement effort around St. Patrick’s Day. The campaign, which ran from March 16 through March 18, included numerous law enforcement agencies across the state and entire country...

McCOOK, Neb. — Zoning and subdivision regulations will be updated in a new comprehensive plan for the city. The McCook City Council unanimously approved a Request for Proposals for consulting services for a new comprehensive plan for the city, that includes updated zoning and subdivision regulations for the city...

McCOOK, Neb. — Two executive sessions are on the agenda for Monday’a meeting of the Red Willow County Commissioners. One involves potential litigation and another involves discussion of applications for a full-time truck driver position. The regular meeting begins at 9 a.m., with Larry Pelan of NIRMA discussing P&C Insurance via telephone at 9:15 a.m. and Brett Warren of 20/20 technologies will discuss GPS technology for road crews and the weed superintendent at 9:30 a.m...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Pool Committee will meet with the engineer and construction manager to work out details for a construction contract for a new pool. Andy Smith, an engineer with Lamp Rynearson, the engineering firm the city is working with, will contact pool committee members for a joint meeting with the construction manager, said McCook City Manager Nate Schneider in his update of the pool and ball park projects at the regular city council meeting Monday night...

They came, they saw, they dined, and they bid — some really high $$$ bids. But it was all for a worthwhile cause. Their dear to the heart cause of enabling the Christian Education of our next generation of precious children. Yes, the participants all already pay taxes to support the public schools, no choice in the matter, but obviously feel that a religious-based education is important enough to contribute over and above...

INDIANOLA, Neb. - One summer, I took our two oldest daughters on a one-hundred-mile trail ride from McCook, Neb. to Phillipsburg, Kan. This ride was scheduled to take approximately one week, and we were to appear in the Grand Entry of the Phillipsburg Rodeo...

As consumers, we purchase Chinese household goods, Japanese cars, and Korean electronics without as much as a blink, so why can’t we maintain an Asian restaurant in McCook? When I landed on these shores in the mid-1990s, we had one Chinese-style restaurant on West 10th calling itself, “Goodlife.” In retrospect, I didn’t appreciate it enough. They didn’t have heavy sauces and fun dishes like moo-shoo or dim sum. It wasn’t at all exotic...

LINCOLN, Neb. – COVID recovery money will help McCook deal with two looming issues — what will happen with the former St. Catherine’s Hospital and if McCook attracts more jobs, where will the workers live? McCook will receive $1 million of the $10 million in American Rescue Plan Act State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds awarded Monday by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development to 12 rural communities...

Fewer and fewer of us live on the farm and are involved in direct ag production, but today’s National Ag Day is a good time to remind us that, realize it or not, most of us have direct ties to the farmland that surrounds our communities. We aren’t named the “Cornhusker State” for nothing; we’re near the top in corn exports and at the top in one of the major industries — beef — as well as others near the top, such as ethanol and hogs...

MAX, Nebraska -- The storytelling skills of "Mr. Bill" Donze of McCook, Nebraska have spread across the world He's added 364 videos to his YouTube channel, "donze52" since 2009, treating 5,698 subscribers to 2,089,481 pageviews by this morning. Sitting in front of the computer at his home at 212 West 11th Street in McCook, Mr. ...