At one point, Willow Springs was the third largest distillery in the U.S. with a peak annual production of 2.4 million gallons of liquor.
The following questions were asked recently on the Wonderline:
The program was vocal and instrumental music. The bugle was heard the clearest, the piano the most muddled. Gen. George Crook and Maj. Andrew Burt conversed in the Crow language.
Forty-seven years ago today, a deadly tornado ripped through the heart of the city — a day that many Omahans will never forget.
For her dedication to helping kids in need receive a comfort item, Donna Pearson was recently presented with the Distinguished Achievement Award from Lincoln’s Gamma Delta Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha.
Check out the most common jobs in Nebraska 150 years ago using data transcribed from the 1870 U.S. Census.
When the Masonic Manor — now Elmwood Tower — opened in 1964, it was believed to be the city’s tallest building (arguable). On one of the highest spots in the city.
There was Hermit Jim, Willie the Hermit, the Keystone Hermit, Charley Splittz (who claimed the distinction of Omaha’s first garbage master) and Frank Benak — otherwise known as "Pango."
Fred Parker had the Gatsby-like lifestyle 25 years before literary great F. Scott Fitzgerald created his protagonist. Parker had a huge home, filled with treasures, that he’d open at times to elaborate costume parties.
The state's first two Capitols didn't hold up well.
Just as talk of renovating a historic Ashland structure was heating up, the historic Beetison House was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning.
It's no April Fools' joke: Gov. Norbert T. Tiemann declared April 1, 1967, to be Johnny Carson Day in Nebraska.
Erastus Benson platted the Benson addition in 1887 along the Military Road leading west. The road was a supply route to western frontier forts and was laid out in 1857 following the ridges in Douglas County to the Elkhorn River crossing.
An estimated 103 people were killed and 350 injured in the Omaha area when a devastating tornado struck with no warning on a warm Easter Sunday 109 years ago today.
In the pre-digital photography era, it's a near miracle anyone took pictures of tornadoes. Fortunately they did, and today we can marvel at the moxie it must have taken to capture images of these monsters.
In the pre-digital photography era, it's a near miracle anyone took pictures of tornadoes. Fortunately they did, and today we can marvel at the moxie it must have taken to capture images of these monsters.
In the pre-digital photography era, it's a near miracle anyone took pictures of tornadoes. Fortunately they did, and today we can marvel at the moxie it must have taken to capture images of these monsters.
YORK – A beautiful new veteran memorial has been installed in front of the York County Courthouse.
It's not clear how Joseph White Eagle's leggings, clay pipe and eagle feather hand fan ended up with a Boyd County doctor a century ago.
The search effort late last year used ground-penetrating radar at 12 different areas that were once apart of the 640-acre campus in Genoa.
George Flecky Jr. never forgot the scenes he witnessed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. “That was the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Sixteen years ago today, the eight winners of what was then the nation's largest lottery jackpot stepped forward to raucous applause at a press conference in Lincoln.
Rishi Sharma's quest to interview every surviving WWII veteran has taken him to nearly every state and multiple different countries. Last week, he made it to Nebraska.
As Lt. Ellis McClintick, 22, eyed the wall of flame blocking the only exit from his burning B-17, his odds of living another five minutes seemed low — much less making it to 100.
These days, Houston Heights is on a run. Money Magazine called it a “Top 10 Big City Neighborhood.” But few know the story of the man who founded it, a Nebraskan who lost two fingers, his company and his beloved son in pursuit of his dream.