Alliance High School English teacher Jill Hoesing has been presented the Nebraska School Activities Association Distinguished Service Award, which is the highest recognition award given by the NSAA.

Alliance, Neb.: At Carhenge, Britain's Stonehenge inspires a bit of automotive Americana.

Vawn Taylor and Brian Hula of Hula Herefords of Creston, Neb., wait their turn to sell Hereford bulls in the Classic Hereford sale.

It's officially completed and open for public viewing. The displays at the Knight Museum and Sandhills Center officially opened for public viewing Monday afternoon following a ribbon cutting ceremony that included dozens of fourth graders from Box Butte County's elementary schools.

It sounds like the tagline to a poorly executed horror film: He's lived here for nearly a month, yet he doesn't know the first thing about this house! Since moving in on the first of February, I've kept a steady regimen of slipping through the door sometime past midnight, quietly taking off my shoes and stepping out into the creak-filled darkness.

An Alliance man has been ordered to serve 90 days in the Morrill County Jail after being convicted of misdemeanor motor vehicle homicide.

An Alliance man has been sentenced to up to six years in prison for taking sexually explicit photographs of young teenage girl.

Margaret E. Fischer, 87, died Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010, at Box Butte General Hospital in Alliance, Neb.

Eleven high school students were given special recognition during the High Plains Band and Choir Festival at Chadron State College earlier this month.

The Alliance Fire Dept will receive a new fire truck this year. The Alliance City Council Thursday night agreed to purchase the new truck from Smeal Fire Apparatus Company of Snyder, NE in the amount of $365,966.00. The City will finance the fire truck with First National Bank for 10 years at 4.55% interest.

The 2010 Miss and Outstanding Teen Alliance/Panhandle pageant was held on Sunday, January 31 at Alliance High School.

Alliance Middle School media students have teamed up with Keep Alliance Beautiful to help them get their message out to the masses.

Gov. Dave Heineman Wednesday presented the first of Nebraskaa s Gold Star Family license plates to two families.

The Alliance Council has authorized the city staff to host a Tire Amnesty week this coming fall.

Officials with The Mercantile farm and ranch supply stores are expected to announce on Wednesday that the stores in a four-state area have been purchased by Bomgaars, a farm and ranch chain based in Sioux City, Iowa.