The Grand Island Community Fireworks Celebration is set to light up the sky for the third year in a row this July 4th.

Sleepy Eyes Todd was anything but drowsy Wednesday, capturing the $50,000 Bosselman/Gus Fonner Handicap at Grand Island’s Fonner Park. Horse racing notes: Pendleton is early favorite in $50,000 ...

Fonner Park CEO Chris Kotulak, center, smiles following a ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of the temporary Grand Island Casino Resort on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022.

The Grand Island Fireworks Celebration has been rescheduled. The fireworks show initially set for Friday night at Fonner Park ...

Fonner Park resumes its standard 31-day racing season with opening day set for, Saturday, Feb. 15. Saturday and Sunday post time is 1:30 p.m. Central. Friday racing begins Feb. 28 with a 3 p.m ...

Though the grandstands were empty, a Grand Island race track attracted eyes from across the country. Fonner Park debuted a spectator-less trial period Monday, producing an all-time track record ...

Fonner Park's racetrack is part of a fairgrounds complex that serves Hall County and its neighbors in the south central part of Nebraska, about 70 miles north of the Kansas border and 90 miles ...

CEO Chris Kotulak expects to have about 700 horses at Fonner Park by Saturday. "We're delighted that we've had an opportunity for so many horses to be training here." ...

Fonner Park spent most of the season without spectators, but it gained worldwide attention through simulcasts. Fonner Park concluded its most unusual meet ever on Wednesday — in front of its ...

GRAND ISLAND — As Fonner Park kicked off its 68th season of horse racing Friday, mutuel tellers Loma Knuth and Lori Jensen planned to be at their spots. Knuth has been at Fonner Park for more ...

Fonner Park, the small track in Grand Isle, Neb., that has seen unprecedented mutuel handle as a result of racing a Monday through Wednesday schedule during the COVID-19 pandemic, has cut one day ...