Statewide just over 49,000 early ballots have already been cast.

It’s not clear if or when a vote on Johnson will happen.

Immigrant students in Nebraska are benefiting from a scholarship that aims to improve their future.

The average price of a gallon of gas in Nebraska is currently $3.40 a gallon

Each year upwards of 100 million birds die to collisions and window strikes nationwide

Bacon is touting a poll of his own, that finds him well ahead, (69-19) 50 points ahead of Frei, some critics call it a push poll, a fraud.

The Silverhawks, after defeating the Lincoln Southeast Knights on Wednesday 3-2 (OT), traveled back up to Norfolk on Friday for a date with the Panthers, winning 1-0

Police tell us that last weekend officers were called to the park to break up a large and disorderly crowd.

Everything is ready for Opera Omaha to premier its first-ever Spanish-language opera in May.

Nebraska parole board members will be removed from that paid job if they miss a dozen parole hearing days per year, says a new state law signed by Gov. Jim Pillen this week. 

University of Nebraska Board of Regents met Friday to approve several items, including whether to permit alcohol sales at Haymarket Park for Husker baseball and softball games.

Two members of a metro-area education board have resigned after their colleagues voted to keep an executive linked to sexual harassment allegations while he led a City of Omaha department. 

State Sen. Danielle Conrad, Lincoln (D): “When the governor set the target of achieving a 40% property tax reduction, his plan from December through today was to raise taxes.”

No date has been announced

In the cross hairs is Governor Jim Pillen's plan to fix it all.

During his first fall semester as dean of a medical university in Ohio, Dr. Jeffrey Gold recalls a first-year student seeking to return her iconic white coat hours after receiving it.

Rebecca Firestone: “That's generally good policy. That if you're going to do an expansion to the base you use those revenues in order to reduce the rate.”

Law enforcement around the country conduct high numbers of traffic stops every single day, but each time brings a risk into play, making Scott's Law crucial. 

Responding to a growing demand from students, the University of Nebraska’s main medical training campus is diving into new territory: building new on-campus student housing.

Despite Ricketts plea for a Senate trial, there is no indication that the Democratic controlled Senate would convict Mayorkas.

An officer died on Highway 77 when a car collided with his vehicle during a traffic stop on Friday night.

The priority candidate for University of Nebraska president is making his case to the public.

Nebraska's own Larry The Cable Guy is getting involved in Lincoln's Professional Bull Riding event this weekend. 

A week’s worth of winner-take all here in Nebraska, with a national audience watching, ends right where it started, plenty of noise but no action, not yet.

For teenagers of the 1980s, Omaha offered little to do on warm summer nights. 

According to the administration, last year while increasing state aid to schools by $324 million, the state imposed a so-called “soft cap” on school districts, school budgets only able to increase by more than 3 percent if the board approved.

Since 2019, students and professors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have been working to restore Reller Prairie in the Martell area of rural Lancaster County.

Nebraskans will soon have the chance to interact with the priority candidate for president of the University of Nebraska.

All the tax talk and frustration are building.

Some were in line 2-hours early, told that this year’s race for the White House is going to be close, possibly boiling down to one of Nebraska’s five electoral votes.

People in Omaha can now get a glimpse of the house of where acclaimed painter Frida Kahlo lived most of her life. 

The bill failed, in large part because two of Congressman Don Bacon’s fellow Republicans, State Senators Merv Riepe and Tom Brandt wouldn’t go along.

Professional Bull Riding is set to make a return to the Cornhusker state next week. 

Backers of the bill coming up 2 votes short needed to stop a heated filibuster.

The legislation would keep biological boys out of girls’ locker rooms and bathrooms and biological boys from playing on girls’ teams.

John Ewing challenges Mayor Jean Stothert over restaurant tax and no streetcar vote

By almost all accounts this year’s race for the White House is going to be close, and now one Nebraska vote is being closely watched, it’s one of Nebraska’s five electoral votes.

State Sen. Mike McDonnell is no longer a Democrat.

With time running out in Lincoln, lawmakers are scratching their heads looking for answers.

Sen. Pete Ricketts: "As Governor I was always against a plan to raise taxes, so I’m against this plan to raise taxes."

Package carries a hike in the state sales tax that is drawing opposition

A single email sent in early March disrupted the lives of 116 Lincoln-area families. The Dimensions child care center at First-Plymouth Church will close for good on May 23, the email said.

By 1975, Joan Micklin Silver of Omaha had made herself an up-and-coming – and money making – Hollywood director. 

The Board putting off any decision on a full Legislative vote to censure Halloran apparently until sometime next week, but not before several lawmakers praised Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh's strength and courage.

Warner Chamber ceremony held on Vietnam War Veterans Day

The right-wing Americans for Prosperity are touting a poll that says 70 percent of Nebraskans oppose raising the sales tax to cut property taxes.

Dr. Jeffrey Gold was the guest speaker at the Beatrice Mayor's Prayer Breakfast.

Joe Jordan, News Channel Nebraska: “Are you going to vote for Donald Trump for president?”
Mayor Jean Stothert, Omaha (R): “Why are we talking about the presidential race?”

According to state campaign finance reports, at the end of February the EPIC folks had raised $150, 209.

In an unexpected move, some issues are likely to see less debate than usual.

They need roughly 87,000 valid signatures by early July to make the November ballot.

After a week of turmoil, the future leadership of the University of Nebraska is becoming clear.

The investigation, announced today, puts Hastings Republican Steve Halloran in the crosshairs.

The Board of Regents meets Wednesday. Is a decision coming soon?

According to Emhoff, this visit is not his last. He says he’ll be back before the election.

State Sen. Julie Slama (R): Sen. Halloran, you should be ashamed of yourself for being incapable of apologizing. There is no justification for your actions, and you should resign.”

Nebraska has agreed to a contract extension with 2024 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Coach of the Year Fred Hoiberg, as announced by Interim Athletic Director Dennis Leblanc and University of Nebraska Interim President Chris Kabourek on Tuesday.

Hastings State Sen. Steve Halloran is under fire

Second year head coach Matt Rhule and the Huskers broke down spring ball, but not before Matt Rhule delivered a state of the union style sermon after Alberts' departure.

An OSHA investigation uncovered a variety of safety issues including electrical problems that “exposed workers to live electrical parts.”

Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol, with assistance from the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office, arrested four people following a pursuit in eastern Nebraska Friday evening.

Mike Kennedy: The problem lays with the Regents. It's their decision. Having an open process helps the political process, by putting pressure from the public to come to a decision.”

Once Omaha’s leading initiator of evictions, the city’s public housing authority has all but stopped filing cases to remove tenants from their homes. 

A year ago, the abortion battle in Nebraska was in the Legislature.

Now, for the most part it’s in the courts and on street corners, as a petition drive is underway that would make abortion far easier.