The Western Nebraska Observer has been the award-winning source of news, information, opinion and sports in Kimball and Banner Counties since 1885. We are located in the Southwestern Panhandle of ...

Kimball native Ben Sauter was recently appointed by the Kimball County Commissioners as the new highway superintendent. Sauter took over the department after Randy Bymer retired in December 2024.

Operating 24/7, 365 days a year, the Kimball County Dispatch is now fully staffed thanks to the local new hires. The dispatcher is not only a dispatcher but has nine screens to watch and respond to, ...

As far as this cat, at lower right, is concerned, the Wheat Growers Hotel still offers the finest of accommodations. The ...

Kimball High School has its largest golf team in decades with 23 boys out for the sport this spring. Their first meet is ...

On Monday morning, a call from the public notified authorities about a gold Lincoln traveling in excess of the speed limit and passing vehicles in no passing zones on Highway 71 south. The citizen’s ...

The Banner County Natural Resource team listens to instructions before they start on their team event at this month's FFA ...

Clean up continues this week at the Union Pacific derailment site near Dix, and a number of freight cars remain rolled over.

The U.S. Air Force will host a Sentinel Program Town Hall from 6 to 8 p.m. April 1 at Kimball Junior/Senior High School. Kimball City Administrator Annette Brower released this statement about the ...

The 200 block of Walnut Street was closed Monday and Tuesday this week while city workers said an abandoned, leaking ...