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NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) have arrested five people following a traffic stop on Highway 6 near McCook Tuesday evening. At approximately 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, a trooper performed a traffic stop on a Dodge Journey that was driving without its lights on. The vehicle also had no license plates. During the traffic stop, the trooper detected that the driver was impaired...

McCOOK, Neb. - The City of McCook Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire Tuesday evening at #26 South Street. First arriving fire department crews reported heavy smoke and fire coming from the trailer house. After arriving on scene, firefighters located a male party outside of the residence who was seriously injured. Fire crews began extinguishment of the fire while providing medical aid to the victim until additional personnel arrived to take over medical care...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Firefighters were hampered by strong winds and endangered by exposed power lines in a fire that destroyed a garage and extensively damaged an adjacent house in McCook Sunday morning. Heavy smoke and fire were reported coming from a garage at 209 E. Second at 5:30 a.m., and the Red Willow Western Rural Fire Department was called in at 5:51 a.m. to assist the McCook Fire Department...

McCOOK, Neb— The Nebraska State Patrol officer who helped rescue a puppy found last year with multiple stab wounds recently had the chance to see him again. Almost a year ago, the NSP responded to a call of a severely injured dog in rural Furnas County. NSP officer Amanda Sackett arrived on the scene, the three- to four-month-old puppy covered in blood and wrapped in a blanket by the family who found him. She put him on the front seat of the car and drove to McCook...

LINCOLN, Neb. —  Work on the first Super 2 highway in Nebraska is progressing on schedule, with the majority of the work completed on the 10-mile segment of US-83 between mile markers 35 and 45 by Frazier Creek in Frontier County, according to District 7 Construction Engineer Drew Wilson. Work began in the spring of 2020 on the first of six projects that will be part of the US-83 Super 2...

HASTINGS, Neb. — It has to be super when words like slobber and knocker are used to describe a wrestling dual. Sure enough, McCook coach Nick Umscheid used these two words to describe a thrilling 42-39 dual with Class B No. 1 Hastings Thursday night...

McCOOK, Neb. - Milva McGhee’s is the new face that will greet you on the third floor of the Keystone Business Center. She is employed by the McCook Economic Development Corporation, and she also helps the McCook Chamber of Commerce with administrative support. Her official title is Early Childhood Community Coordinator, and she started at MEDC on December 1st...

McCOOK, Neb. -- McCook Community College’s Social Justice Club and Student Services invited students, faculty and staff in a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Monday at the MCC Student Union. Members of the club led informal and education discussions about Dr. King and his influences...

McCOOK, Neb. - Lynne Kinne, left, presents Bill Ramsey with a gift card compliments of the McCook Education Association and local merchants. The local education association recognized each of its members on “I Love Public Schools” Day with a gift card purchased or donated by many businesses...

High winds and tinder-dry conditions combined to create massive grassfires that kept firefighters from Haigler to Cambridge and beyond scrambling all night Thursday and today. Red Willow Western joined Bartley, Beaver Valley, Cambridge and Indianola firefighters at a large grassfire south of Bartley, Roads 710 and 402 after 9:41 p.m. ...

Dear Editor, Immediately following the January 6 “siege” upon the U.S. Capitol, Senator Ben Sasse, bringing to bear his tenor of painfully patronizing, pretentious moral outrage, hitched his wagon to the Democrats’ team of wild-eyed jackasses – and proudly rode shotgun for those shameless hypocrites who accuse President Donald Trump of “inciting insurrection.” Once again, our junior Senator revealed his lack of prudence and demonstrated that his oft-lofty pontificating on the Constitution is but political grandstanding. ...

Dear Editor, “Put a beggar on horseback, and he'll drive you to your grave.” -- this is an old Irish axiom that my mother taught me as a very young boy That our new president is on his way to fulfilling the truth of this axiom by becoming the perfect example of such a “beggar” -- there can be no doubt...

What an insult to have our National Guard troops “vetted” before they could go on guard duty at the inauguration! Being a military veteran it hit my heart because I consider all military as family. Unjustifiably insult my kinfolk and I will respond in retaliation. Evidently, the Governor of Texas feels the same way...

McCOOK, Neb. - Milva McGhee’s is the new face that will greet you on the third floor of the Keystone Business Center. She is employed by the McCook Economic Development Corporation, and she also helps the McCook Chamber of Commerce with administrative support. Her official title is Early Childhood Community Coordinator, and she started at MEDC on December 1st...

Noticeably absent from this week’s inauguration festivities was our oldest living President. Jimmy Carter, who excused himself for health reasons. Mr. Carter, or as I call him, “Jimma,” was born in October of 1924 and has survived at least one bout with cancer. He’s not getting any younger, and I fear that we won’t have him for much longer...

McCOOK, Neb. – One community organization is celebrating a financially successful 2020. McCook Chamber President Dawson Brunswick told the Gazette that the chamber ended 2020 with the first net profit it had experienced in six years. He said that despite the pandemic, the chamber was able to build a lot of strong relationships with the business community throughout the year...

McCOOK, Neb. - The McCook Chamber of Commerce board of directors chose McCook Clinic as Honor Business for the first quarter of 2021. According to Chamber President Dawson Brunswick, “They have been such an asset to our community and we just wanted to recognize the excellence in what they have been doing and the partners they are. We’re just so excited that they were able to step up in these crazy times.”...