Category Archives: Hastings News
High Wind Warning issued for central Nebraska on Thursday, winds could gust up to 60 mph
HASTINGS - A High Wind Warning has been issued for all of central Nebraska during the daytime hours of Thursday, Dec. 17. According to the National Weather Service - Hastings, the warning will be in e...
Dec 17, 2025 High Wind Warning has been issued for central Nebraska on Thursday, Dec. 17, (NWS Hastings, Courtesy)
Wind gusts up to 50 mph expected in central Nebraska on Thursday
HASTINGS - Wind gusts up to 50 mph are expected across much of central Nebraska during the morning and afternoon of Thursday, Dec. 18. A cold front will move through the region on Thursday and the str...
Dec 16, 2025 National Weather Service - Hastings Office, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
Hastings Police Department's activity from Dec. 15
HASTINGS - The Hastings Police Department released their daily activity from Monday, Dec. 15. Reported Offenses: On December 15, 2025, an 18-year-old Hastings resident reported a hit and run in the 80...
Dec 16, 2025 Hastings Police Department, Courtesy
Elm Avenue fiber line work to start this week in Hastings
HASTINGS - The City of Hastings Street Department will assist with traffic control during the week of Dec. 15, 2025 as Kinetic by Windstream moves a fiber line on the block of Elm Avenue between the B...
Dec 15, 2025 work that Kinetic by Windstream is scheduled to conduct next week on Elm Avenue south of the BNSF Railway crossing, (City of Hastings, Courtesy)
Hastings Police Department's activity from Dec. 12-14
HASTINGS - The Hastings Police Department released their daily activity from Friday, Dec. 12 through Sunday, Dec. 14. Reported Offenses: On December 12, 2025, a 34-year-old Hastings resident reported ...
Dec 15, 2025 Hastings Police Department, Courtesy
Large temperature swings, little precipitation for central Nebraska
KEARNEY - Large temperature swings but little precipitation will be in store for central Nebraska throughout mid-December. "A strong arctic high-pressure system will build into the Upper Midwest by Fr...
Dec 12, 2025 Drought conditions across Nebraska on Dec. 9, (U.S. Drought Monitor, Courtesy)
Hastings Police Department's activity from Dec. 11
HASTINGS - The Hastings Police Department released their daily activity from Thursday, Dec. 11. Reported Offenses: On December 11, 2025, a 29-year-old Hastings resident reported a hit and run accident...
Dec 12, 2025 Hastings Police Department, Courtesy
60-year-old Hastings man charged with receipt, possession of child pornography
HASTINGS - A Hastings man has been charged with receipt and possession of child pornography according to an unsealed indictment in the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska. Eric Gerlach, 60...
Dec 11, 2025 Kesu01 / Depositphotos.com
Hastings Utility's Shane Stone promoted to director of administration
HASTINGS - Longtime City of Hastings Utility Department employee Shane Stone was promoted to the position of Director of Administration effective Nov. 30. Stone, 41, has worked 16 years for the City o...
Dec 11, 2025 Hastings Utility Department employee Shane Stone was promoted to the role of Director of Administration, (City of Hastings, Courtesy)
Hastings Police Department's activity from Dec. 10
HASTINGS - The Hastings Police Department released their daily activity from Wednesday, Dec. 10. Reported Offenses: On December 10, 2025, a 41-year-old Hastings resident reported child pornography in ...
Dec 11, 2025 Hastings Police Department, Courtesy