Doug Kennedy

News Reporter for News Channel Nebraska and KWBE Radio News

May 15, 2019Updated: July 28, 2020

By News Channel Nebraska

KWBE Radio News & NCN News Reporter

For the past 40 years, I have done news at KWBE I was Born in Yankton, South Dakota……grew up in northwest and southeast Iowa…..graduated from Centerville, IA H.S., and Iowa State University with journalism/mass communication degree, minor in political science, near minor in economics….walk-on member of Iowa State golf team from 1978 to 1980. Activities in free time (on those rare occasions there is any)……golfing, bass and trout fishing, walking, watching college basketball, football, and baseball.

Doug Kennedy

Regional

Hastings Man Accused of Leaving Child in Roadside Ditch Pleads Not Guilty

Army Corps holds Kearney meeting on proposed Perkins County Canal project

Wyatt Flores, Trace Adkins, Hairball Announced for Adams County Fair Concert Series

Grass fire started by train rekindles west of Kearney

Evacuations ordered due to wildfires in southwest Lancaster County

Grass fire burns one acre in Hall County amid Red Flag Warning

State

The Prairie Club escapes building damage from nearby wildfire

Massive Morrill Fire burns 330,000 acres across Nebraska Panhandle, remains 0% contained

Fire nearly Halsey burns 36,000 acres

Fire south of Valentine, Kilgore burns thousands of acres, damages buildings

Pillen declares emergency, mobilizes National Guard as wildfires burn across Nebraska

All 6 airmen on a US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, US military says

Sports

#4 DC West upsets #1 Ogallala 43-39 in C-1 semifinals

McCool Junction wins rubber match with East Butler in D1 quarters

Auburn survives last-second shot by upset-minded Gothenburg

DC West hangs on against GICC to advance to state semifinals for the first time

Freeman edges Valentine in overtime thriller at state tournament

WNCC baseball wins second straight on Spring Break trip in Arizona

Ag & Outdoor

‘Worst-case scenario’: Fertilizer, fuel cost spikes hitting Nebraska farmers hard

Outdoor notes: Haag shares 100 years of Nebraskaland

Supplementing dryland wheat and irrigated corn with proso millet in drought years

Nebraska Extension to host March 17 Webinar on Confinement Feeding Cow-calf Pairs

Outdoor notes: Join Game and Parks in virtual fisheries discussion

Outdoor notes: Game and Parks releasing rainbow trout this spring