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Record Ag Trade Deficit Forecast for this year
The U.S. is facing a record-large agricultural trade deficit in 2024. In a recent Newsline, Betty Resnick, an economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the deficit has deepened significantly in the last two years. Betty Resnick, an economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the deficit has deepened…
Mountain Lion killed at Scotts Bluff Country Club
Authorities have confirmed to KNEB News that a mountain lion was euthanized Wednesday evening at Scotts Bluff Country Club. https://youtu.be/8dhIWWHVvB4 Around 1:50 p.m., a resident on Peacock Drive reported the sighting after she said the mountain lion jumped up on the window of her front porch and began hissing at…
Tennessee, Texas A&M advance to CWS Finals
Tennessee and Texas A&M will meet in the CWS Championship Series after winning their respective Semifinal Games at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha on Wednesday. The Aggies shutout Florida 6-0 in the nightcap after the Volunteers defeated Florida State 7-2 in the afternoon. Florida and Kentucky played a makeup game…
KNEB.tv News: June 19, 2024
Today on KNEB.tv News: Arson suspected following back-to-back house fires at same property Grass fire keeps firefighters busy across Morrill and Box Butte Counties Gas leak prompts 90 minute closure of Highway 71 near Scotts Bluff County Club Gov. Pillen hints at late July special legislative session Federal, state, local…
Schiff Fire flares back up southwest of Alliance
Firefighters returned Wednesday morning to the fire lines of what's now being called the Schiff Fire, the large grassland blaze in an area of rolling hills west-southwest of Alliance that started Tuesday morning. Through a post on the Alliance Fire Department Facebook page, Fire Chief Troy Shoemaker says after the…
Day 5, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
Kansas wheat producers can’t seem to catch a break in the weather, kicking up swirling, dust clouds as they raced to cut wheat ahead of heavy thunderstorms and hail on Tuesday, June 18. Harvest is now progressing into areas of south central Kansas that missed the rains that have benefited…
Quilts of Valor – Every Stitch Says Thank You
Would you like to learn more about the Quilts of Valor for veterans? On June 20th at 5:30pm at the Knight Museum & Sandhills Center, Kathy Dye, group leader and coordinator for Nebraska Panhandle Blocks, will give a short history program about the presentation of quilts of valor. What goes…
Repeat House Fires in SW Scottsbluff Suspected Arson
A criminal investigation is underway following house fires at a home on West Overland both Monday and Tuesday night. On Monday evening, the Scottsbluff Fire Department was dispatched to a structure fire at 1902 West Overland. Upon arrival, they observed heavy smoke conditions but located the main body of fire…
AltEn pilot project resumes using new, less mechanical process
MEAD, Nebraska — A pilot project to discover the best way to remove a 14-acre pile of pesticide-contaminated “wet cake” from the site of the now-notorious AltEn ethanol plant here has resumed after a delay that was blamed on equipment breakdowns and a change in the process. Two backhoe-like “excavators”…
Gas Leak in Northwest Scottsbluff Causes Wednesday Morning Scare
A scary situation this morning in northwest Scottsbluff as a natural gas leak occurred in the area of the Scotts Bluff Country Club. (KNEB/RRN) Sheriff Mark Overman says the gas line was cut by a construction crew and gas was shut off for residents on Blue Jay Court and Cardinal…
