KEARNEY — Windstream phone service — cut Thursday to an unknown number of customers in Kearney, Grand Island and North Platte — was restored by 10:30 a.m. Friday. Windstream became aware of the outage ...

Restoring service took longer than expected because workers had to repair computer connections by hand, he said. As a precaution, all rural fire departments in the affected area were fully staffed, ...