A new series of wildfires are impacting Nebraska. At least eight reported wildfires broke out in central Nebraska yesterday afternoon. One of the largest blazes, the Taber Rec Fire, has burned an estimated four-thousand acres one mile north of Highway 12 in Knox County.
Evacuations are ordered following a wildfire in Grant County. The Grant County Sheriff’s Office issued the evacuation order yesterday telling residents to evacuate Whitman and head to the Grant County Courthouse in Hyannis. The fire was reported about two-and-a-half miles southeast of Highway Two and Corrothers Avenue.
Dawson County is seeing a dramatic increase in its unemployment rate. The county’s unemployment rate increased from three-point-four percent in January to 16-point-nine percent in February following the closure of the county’s Tyson plant. Tyson laid off more than three-thousand people at its plant in Dawson County earlier this year…