The Council Bluffs Noon Rotary Club will sponsor a speaker on polio this week in conjunction with World Polio Day, which was Sunday.
Believe it or not, these are the places in Lincoln with the most lore for being haunted.
The histories of the communities that still endure are easy enough to find, but Nebraska ghost towns' stories often are unheard -- and remind …
No one knows why Benton Kinkead's three children never claimed his ashes. Now the Civil War veteran will be buried next to his wife at a cemet…
A developer hopes to tap state and federal historic preservation tax credits to help rehabilitate the structure, which was built in 1904 and u…
Working at a museum can be really exciting.
The New Tower’s front lobby had a Normandy castle motif with great stone walls, heraldic crests and wood-burning fireplace. The massive beams …
A generation likely are unaware that a major Nebraska amusement spot was in Omaha. During the Big Band era, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and G…
“I am big on local history,” John Hanssen said. “I grew up driving around the countryside. I see these old outhouses that, for whatever reason…
Each character describes a hardship faced by homesteaders.
Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. Unless, that is, you have a death wish.
The Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, often referred to as the Black Angel, has been a source of malevolent theories over the years, but it is anythin…
Burial grounds are scattered across Douglas County — downtown, near downtown, on the Nebraska Medical Center campus, near the Field Club and s…
History has changed — or at least the exhibition in the State Historical Society of Iowa’s mobile museum has.
You are a guest in someone’s home for the very first time.
The fame of Curo Springs was so far-reaching that in pioneer days — every fall and spring — people from 100 miles away (some crossing the Miss…
Denim overalls are the featured attraction at an exhibit by the Table Rock Historical Society. Open houses for the exhibit are scheduled on Se…
Fritz Olenberger simply wanted to see if the internet had anything to say about his dad or their first house here. What he found, however, was…
An Iowa charity is raising money to build a memorial for the only Iowa Medal of Honor recipient who died in the Korean War.
Instead of covering our noses and mouths with a mask, we were donning our special glasses to see the eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.
The Council Bluffs Area Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Council Bluffs Alumni Association have announced the 34th class of Leadership Counc…
When guests enter the Historic General Dodge House, they are struck by a fine mother-of-pearl etagere (French for “shelf”), which prominently …
As the government makes long-awaited strides in unveiling the untold history of Indian Boarding Schools, researchers in Nebraska are hopeful i…
Thirty-four years ago today, Ronald Reagan became the first sitting president to visit western Nebraska since Harry Truman rode through on a t…
A new roof was installed two years ago, and the original windows and lap siding of the wood-sided, 33-room structure founded by Dr. Susan La F…
Should Gov. Andrew Cuomo resign or be impeached, Hamburg's Kathy Hochul would become the 57th governor of New York and, as frequently mentione…
It took $87,500 and more than 31,000 volunteer hours of scraping, sanding, buffing and painting to restore the EC-135C — once a mainstay of th…
