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Nebraska City will mark National Emergency Medical Services week with an open house Thursday at Fareway Foods.The open house is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 to 7 p.m.EMTs will demonstrate equipment and perform free blood pressure and heart scans.

Fiscal year 2011 marked the first decrease in per student public education spending since the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting data on an annual basis in 1977, according to new statistics released today (dollars not adjusted for inflation). The 50 states and the District of Columbia spent $10,560 per...

Cpt. Lonnie Neeman reported Monday afternoon that police have interviewed several youths, ages 9-11, and believe they are responsible for damage to the public art tree sculpture at Steinhart Park.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October.

Mayor Jack Hobbie and representatives of Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce and Nebraska City News-Press awarded the 2013 prestigious tree award to Skip Hammond for the “treaty tree” during the community tree planting activities at the Lewis and Clark Center.

Irrigation proved to be the difference between the "haves" and "have-nots" in farm income in drought-stricken 2012 in Nebraska.