Platte Center News

This year has been rife with trials and tribulations for corn growers after an unseasonably cool summer led to an almost unexpectedly cold fall.

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law $334 million in budget reductions on Friday, after lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the cuts during an emergency session in which there was little disagreement over how to close the largest budget gap in recent memory.

Thanks to term limits, all but two Nebraska lawmakers will be venturing into unfamiliar territory today when the special budget-cutting session starts.

Three Nebraska towns have received more than $457,000 following spring storms that unleashed damaging wind, hail, tornadoes and rain.

State Sen. Robert Giese is not giving up when it comes to the state's expressway system.

A newborn dropped off this week under Nebraska's revised safe haven law might have to spend six months or more in foster care unless his parents can be found.