Power play: Project to move power through Nebraska Sandhills has stalled … for 12 years.
The R-Project transmission line was supposed to be done by 2018. But not a single mile of the 226-mile line has been built. Why?
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The R-Project transmission line was supposed to be done by 2018. But not a single mile of the 226-mile line has been built. Why?
GREELEY, Neb. – Better to walk out than get thrown out. And with that, Robert Bernt, an organic farmer in central Nebraska, turned and left the old school…
A state program aims to protect Nebraskans by committing dangerous sex offenders to treatment. Some say the system warehouses men instead of rehabilitating them.
The boy ordered 79 meals during the 2019-20 school year: Chicken fingers, mac & cheese, corn puppies, French toast sticks, hot dog, stuffed-crust pepperoni pizza. A court document…
On the 36-person cheerleader squad, two are Nebraska natives. They’re not the first.
Rural mental health struggles are real, as is the lack of mental health providers in small-town Nebraska.
But the Koch family, and many others, are working to help.
Two Nebraska boys are among the hundreds buried at a boarding school notorious for stripping Native kids of their culture and language. Now, the Winnebago Tribe is fighting to get them back.
At long last, we have our date in (Supreme) Court. On Feb. 8, the Nebraska Journalism Trust and Flatwater Free Press head to Lincoln to argue that the…
A June FFP investigation found that in the past decade, one of every three state civil forfeiture cases in Nebraska happened in Seward County, population 17,608. Now, a bill seeks to end the practice statewide.
A small unit inside the Omaha Police Department helps to handle the deluge of mental health crises that police grapple with daily. One out of every three 911 calls OPD responded to last year was tied to mental health. The co-responders unravel mental health mysteries. They also help victims of crime, including Yanqi Xu, this story’s author.