Category Archives: Hastings News
City of Hastings releases Heartbeat Creative District survey results
HASTINGS - The Heartbeat Creative District Survey saw a strong turnout with 269 responses, including 19 in Spanish. The survey was available throughout the month of May in digital form through a proje...
Jul 16, 2024 Heartbeat Creative District, (City of Hastings, Courtesy)
2024 Adams County Fairfest Schedule
HASTINGS - The 2024 Adams County Fairfest is being held this week at the Adams County Fairgrounds. A list of activities for the week can be found below: Sunday, July 14 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Static Exhibi...
Jul 15, 2024 Adams County Fairgrounds, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
One more Heat Advisory on Monday before relief starts on Tuesday
HASTINGS - The Tri-Cities will have to endure one more Heat Advisory today before cooler temperatures start on Tuesday and will linger through the weekend. A Heat Advisory remains in effects for all c...
Jul 15, 2024 Mid-July sunset, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
State Little League Tournament first weekend results in Kearney
KEARNEY - The first weekend of the two week State Little League tournaments took place in Kearney this past weekend. In the Majors Division (This consists of 11 and 12 year olds and is the division wh...
Jul 15, 2024 Dave Arkfeld, Courtesy
After 270,000-mile trip, Moon Tree lands in Hastings College Arboretum
HASTINGS - There's something special about the American sweetgum sapling planted in the Hastings College Arboretum in June: it's a "Moon Tree" grown from a seed that flew around the Moon on NASA's Art...
Jul 12, 2024 The Artemis I Moon Trees, rooted in the legacy of the original Moon Trees flown by NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa during Apollo 14 in 1971, (Hastings College, Courtesy)
City of Hastings response to state Supreme Court viaduct ruling
HASTINGS - The Nebraska Supreme Court previously heard oral arguments on May 3, 2024, regarding the Chief Petitioners request to hold an election on whether or not to reverse City Council's decision t...
Jul 12, 2024 Hastings, Nebraska, Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today
Temperatures across central Nebraska to hit triple digits over weekend
KEARNEY - Temperatures increase this weekend with potentially dangerous heat in store for positions of central Nebraska from Saturday through Monday. "Temperatures will increase this weekend and into ...
Jul 12, 2024 Sunset dips behind the clouds over central Nebraska, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
East Park water main shut off, work in Hastings
HASTINGS - City of Hastings water crews will shut off the water main on East Park Street between South Elm Avenue and South Second Avenue, beginning at 9 a.m. on Friday July 12, 2024. The water main w...
Jul 12, 2024 East Park Elm to 2nd Ave Shutdown, (City of Hastings, Courtesy)
Hastings Community Theatre's HCT Kids presents 'Mean Girls JR'
HASTINGS -Hastings Community Theatre's HCT Kids presents the ferociously hilarious musical Mean Girls JR. on July 19, 20, and 21. Show times are at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday night, with matinee...
Jul 11, 2024 HCT Kids invites you to attend the smart and ferociously funny musical Mean Girls JR, (Hastings Community Theatre, Courtesy)
Smoke from Canadian wildfires cause moderate air quality in central Nebraska
KEARNEY - Smoke from wildfires in Canada has filtered down over Central Nebraska and is causing moderate air quality concerns. The smoke can be traced back to a large number of fires burning in the Qu...
Jul 11, 2024 Wildfire smoke obscures a sunset in central Nebraska, (Brian Neben, Courtesy)