The year 2025 has come and gone and visitors were active on their computers, phones, and tablets yet again on SandhillsExpress.com. The year had news, weather, and sports events that had the area intrigued, impassioned, and sympathetic. We at KCNI/KBBN and Sandhills Express continue to be proud to be a source you look to for accurate information, whether you are reading and listening locally or from afar. Thank you for your readership and listenership. We have never and will never take your support for granted, and you can be sure that we will continue to work hard for you in 2026!
Below are some numbers behind the 2025 year from SandhillsExpress.com through December 30
Total website pageviews: 3,729,736
Where visits began: Organic search (597k), direct (541k), organic social (342k), referral (191k)
Top 10 “Evergreen” pages (led by the Sandhills Express homepage with nearly 900,000 views)
1. Homepage
2. Obituaries
3. News
4. Partyline
5. Closings
6. Weather forecast
7. Restaurant menus
8. Community calendar
9. Employment
10. Garage sales
Among individual stories listed below, breaking news drove the strongest engagement with the coverage of fires, accidents, criminal court news, and public safety incidents dominating the most-read list. Weather updates, school and business closings, and community resources also came in strong, particularly during severe weather and high-impact local events even though they did not make this top 10 list. Sports coverage, including major local milestones, rounded out the year’s most-viewed content.
Top 10 news stories of 2025 (by number of reads)
1. Nebraska meatpackers call on feds to deregulate industry (link here)
2. Body found at Broken Bow storage units identified (link here)
3. Explosions, fire at Broken Bow power plant cause outages (link here)
4. Fire truck rollover injures two during response (link here)
5. Fires spark throughout Custer County area (link here)
6. Fatal two-vehicle crash investigation information released (link here)
7. Broken Bow woman accused of taking over $100,000 (link here)
8. Stolen pickups and trailer recovered (link here)
9. Former Sargent para-educator accused of sexual abuse (link here)
10. Broken Bow man killed in home fire (link here)
