LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency has launched a new website designed to be more user friendly.

The agency says the site’s new look should make it more intuitive and easier to navigate. Along with a new appearance, the site will offer more features to users including a sortable calendar, an email subscription service and online registrations for events.

NEMA Assistant Director Bryan Tuma says the website will provide “quality information in a user-friendly format.”

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has awarded several grants to enhance watchable wildlife and nature-based opportunities in the state.

The watchable wildlife grant program is administered by the commission, with support from the Nebraska Wildlife Conservation Fund. This year’s grants totaled more than $13,000. Groups awarded grants this year will benefit everything from bird watching to outdoor and agricultural learning and teaching naturalist skills.

Those interested can learn more about watching Nebraska’s wildlife or the grant by visiting OutdoorNebraska.gov/wildlifeviewing/ or contacting the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s watchable wildlife biologist at adam.jones@nebraska.gov.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — The Archway monument spanning Interstate 80 at Kearney will be closed for a week this month while improvements to the attraction are completed.

Archway marketing coordinator Jace Robinson says the attraction will be closed Feb. 20-26.

Robinson says visitor attendance is historically low during February, so officials don’t expect the closure to affect the attraction’s overall attendance numbers.

The main project will be centralizing the switches and breakers that start the exhibit’s audio and light show.

The Archway’s point-of-sale system will also be upgraded, and staff and volunteers will use the closure to clean the museum.

The Archway will resume normal operating hours on Feb. 27.

• Nathaniel Kent Most, 48, Brady and Wendy YaVonne Hunt, 45, Cozad

 

• Aaron Jay Fuoss, 19, North Platte and Shasta Marie Irwin, 17, North Platte

News Director Scott Carlson visited with new Executive Director for the North Platte Area Habitat for Humanity, Dalene Skates, to discuss their open application period which runs through February 29. Listen for the details and to hear about some of the amazing things this organization does.

https://soundcloud.com/eagleradio-1/dalene-skates-habitat-for-humanity

The Kearney Police Department responded to Casey’s Gas Station, 112 Talmadge Street, in regards to an assault/attempted robbery at approximately 12:16 a.m., on Friday.

An unknown white male with brown hair, approximately 25 years old, wearing a grey and white flannel shirt, light blue jeans, and black shoes had entered the store.

While in the store, he approached the clerk behind the counter in which he pulled out a sharp object and began to assault her.

The 56-year-old female employee received minor injuries and was treated at CHI Good Samaritan Hospital. The unknown male then departed the store and was last seen traveling north on foot.

Police say the investigation is ongoing.

If you have any information, contact the Kearney Police Department at (308) 237-2141.