At the end of the game, the bench erupts in cheers as Faith Bohac celebrates and her sister, JaLeigh Bohac, heads to the bench to celebrate the ...

Good morning, and we went from Spring to Winter just like that! Today is Thursday, February 13th, and it could be Friday so there is that. Did your favorite team win the Super Bowl game this past ...

Kimball 38, Bayard 25 This week proved how far the Kimball Lady Longhorns have come, and I am so proud of them. We opened up ...

The Potter-Dix Coyote boys basketball team started February with a victory, then dropped their next two games. On Feb. 1, the Coyotes traveled to Crawford for a matchup against the Rams, and they were ...

Banner County FFA competed Feb. 5 at District Career Development Events and enjoyed some great results. The Vet Science Team ...

Kimball Superintendent Trevor Anderson’s report at the School Board meeting on Monday, Feb. 10, presented the Annual Report to the Patrons. Included in the report are charts, graphs and statistics for ...

City crews have worked long hours to repair a cascading event that began when a vehicle sheared off a fire hydrant at the ...

On Tuesday, Feb 4, the Kimball City Council voted to table the vote on the wastewater treatment plant project for 30 days to study the issue and financing and to have a full board vote on the $3.78 ...

Cleanup work continues this week at the site of Sunday's train derailment near Dix. By Monday morning, cleanup of the ...

The Western Nebraska Observer has been the award-winning source of news, information, opinion and sports in Kimball and Banner Counties since 1885. We are located in the Southwestern Panhandle of ...

Robert Lynn Johnson, 57, passed away on January 25th , 2025, in Lowry, Colorado after a courageous battle with cancer. Services will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, February 8, 2025 at Prairie West ...

Eldon Lewis of Kimball pleaded no contest on Tuesday afternoon to an amended charge of cruelty to an animal resulting in death, a Class IV felony. Lewis, housed in the Kimball County Jail since the ...