Nebraska News

A crew from LifeTeam presented an overview of air transport and landing zone creation to a group of area agencies that provide mutual aid to one another.

Lawmakers have rejected an attempt to repeal a new Nebraska law that lets cities raise their local option sales tax rates, as long as they secure voter approval.

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has used a line-item veto to strike $200,000 from the state budget that was approved for an Omaha golf tournament.

An Omaha gay-rights group is seeking the return of some $1,800 donated to a woman convicted of lying about being attacked by masked men who carved anti-gay slurs into her skin.

We take care of our bodies by trying to eat healthy, getting enough rest and working out, but are we doing the same for our brains? Researchers say there are still a lot of unknowns with the brain, but they do know that age, depression and illnesses cause cells to die and the brain to shrink.

Millard South High Principal Curtis Case has been selected to represent Nebraska as its High School Principal of the Year, and Christopher Stogdill, principal of Otte Middle School in Blair, has been named Middle School Distinguished Principal of the Year.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says the user-friendly website allows visitors to buy a fishing permit.

Considering how slowly he produces his feature films, a new movie from Spike Jonze is always a special occasion and it looks like we're going to get one this year as his enigmatic movie Her has now been given a limited release in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto on November 20 through Warner Bros.

OMAHA A Merry Occasion has been serving as a chapel for weddings for the last 24 years.

The Elm Creek Beacon-Observer's 21-year-old new owner has published the first edition of the weekly newspaper he bought in March.

Nebraska and Iowa motorists are paying some of the steepest gas prices in the nation, with Omaha breaking a local record at the pump.

But a Lincoln lawmaker says a bill pending in the Nebraska Legislature can still help the state combat sex trafficking, even without those provisions.

Done in by a paper trail, Rick Sheehy was on his way to becoming Nebraska's next governor.

Chemicals that are used in the newest generation of designer drugs would become illegal in Nebraska, under a measure advancing in the Legislature.

The superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol says law enforcement is increasing its presence in Whiteclay after activists attacked two beer trucks and threatened one driver with a knife.

Toogood's absence in court this morning forced Adams County District Judge Stephen Illingworth to declare a mistrial in the case against John A. Espino, 30, of 1215 N. Lexington Ave., who has been accused of striking his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach with a board on Aug.

The new STEM lab at Marian High will have a strut system suspended from the ceiling to support various devices.

A series of commemorative events are scheduled in Beatrice for June 2 to commemorate 'O Pioneers!', the story of an immigrant farm family in Nebraska.

The senior Lady Panther, who has signed a letter of intent with the University of Nebraska-Kearney, vaulted 11-feet, 6 1/2-inches at the state meet to break the Class C state meet record.

Vernon Meyer of Bellwood, Neb., opposes a proposed Pillen Family Farms hog confinement facility that would be built on this site, northwest of Bellwood and about a mile south of the Brandenburgh Lakes housing development where he lives.