Category Archives: Hastings News
Hastings Police Department's activity from Oct. 2
HASTINGS - The Hastings Police Department released their daily activity from Thursday, Oct. 2. Reported Offenses: On October 2, 2025, a 53-year-old Hastings resident reported criminal mischief in the ...
Oct 03, 2025 Hastings Police Department, Courtesy
Hastings Fire & Rescue highlights safety regarding lithium-ion batteries in the home
HASTINGS - Hastings Fire & Rescue is teaming up with the National Fire Protection Association - the official sponsor of Fire Prevention Week for more than 100 years - to promote this year's FPW ca...
Oct 02, 2025 This year's theme is “Charge into Fire Safety: Lithium-Ion Batteries in Your Home.” The week concludes with an open house 9 a.m. To noon on Saturday, Oct. 11 at Fire Station 1, (Courtesy)
Budget billing update for Hastings residents
HASTINGS - Budget billing customers will pay for the utilities they use during the month of October before resuming the budget billing format in November. This will allow the updated system to be esta...
Oct 02, 2025 Budget billing customers will pay for the utilities they use for the month of October before resuming the monthly average format in November this is to switch from the Payment In Lieu of Taxes to dividend payment to the City of Hastings, (Courtesy)
Closure of Colorado Ave. north of South St. in Hastings
HASTINGS - Colorado Avenue is scheduled to close to through traffic between South Street and south of the BNSF Railway crossing for private sanitary sewer and water services beginning at 8:30 a.m. on ...
Oct 02, 2025 Colorado Avenue between South Street and the BNSF Railway tracks beginning Thursday morning will be close for private sanitary sewer and water service work, (City of Hastings, Courtesy)
Hastings Police Department's activity from Oct. 1
HASTINGS - The Hastings Police Department released their daily activity from Wednesday, Oct. 1. Reported Offenses: On October 1, 2025, a 75-year-old Hastings resident reported a burglary in the 500 bl...
Oct 02, 2025 Hastings Police Department, Courtesy
Mosquitoes are still active despite cooler weather, Cache Valley Virus reported in central Nebraska
NEBRASKA - As cooler weather begins to set in, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services reminds Nebraskans that mosquitoes will remain active until the first hard freeze, making it importa...
Oct 01, 2025 mrfiza / Depositphotos.com
Hastings College Theatre to perform 'Ride the Cyclone, The Musical'
HASTINGS - What happens when a high school choir's trip to an amusement park takes a fateful turn? Hastings College Theatre invites audiences to find out in its production of the hilarious and heartfe...
Oct 01, 2025 ‘Ride the Cyclone, The Musical’ (Hastings College, Courtesy)
Hastings Police Department's activity from Sept. 30
HASTINGS - The Hastings Police Department released their activity from Tuesday, Sept. 30. Reported Offenses: On September 30, 2025, a 46-year-old Hastings resident reported threats in the 200 block of...
Oct 01, 2025 Hastings Police Department, Courtesy
Above average temperatures through end of week, precipitation chances return Saturday night
HASTINGS - Those hoping for more fall-like conditions will have to keep waiting as above average temperatures will remain in place for the rest of the week. Precipitation chances will return Saturday ...
Sep 30, 2025 October sunset over a corn field in central Nebraska, (Brian Neben, Courtesy)
Hastings man charged with child abuse resulting in death pleads not guilty
HASTINGS - A Hastings man facing a felony charge after his five-month-old son died due to heat exposure in a vehicle has pleaded not guilty in Adams County District Court. Jeremy Hansen, 36, has been ...
Sep 30, 2025 Local Court News, (Central Nebraska Today)