Flatwater Free PressDestiny is a Roy W. Howard fellow through the Scripps Howard Foundation. She earned her master’s degree in journalism at the University of Maryland. While at UMD, she covered NASA and Congress for Capital News Service, reporting on everything from cheese served at state dinners to future missions to Mars. She worked on the Howard Center’s award-winning project, “Mega Billons,” an investigation of state lotteries, and was part of an ongoing Associated Press investigation into law enforcement practices. When she isn’t reporting, Destiny loves swing dancing and thrift shopping.
The case and lack of criminal charges against the still-practicing veterinarian outraged some residents. Now they’re seeking to recall the longtime county attorney.
Top NPPD leaders received six-figure bonuses in 2023, bonuses that ballooned their salaries and moved them far past other public officials — including other power execs. NPPD says there’s rampant competition for those execs. A key state senator says the bonuses are wrong.
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?
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.
Bill Gates’ Nebraska neighbors don’t know he owns the soybean field down the road. Here’s the story of his spending spree, including the massive loan he took out against his land.
Foreign companies have serious ties to Nebraska agriculture, but those ties don’t often lead to ownership of Nebraska farmland – thanks partly to a 19th century law.
In the past five years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought twice as much Nebraska land as the second biggest buyer. If they keep it up, they’ll soon own more than anyone.
Three Native tribes are rebuying back land that was once theirs, before the U.S. government took some and then desperation stole more. Getting it back isn’t cheap.
Arline Morris’ teeth are failing fast. She can’t eat much, and struggles daily with constant pain while taking medication that makes her teeth even more fragile. She’s been…
There’s a push in the Nebraska Legislature to substantially increase Medicaid funding and raise the reimbursement rates, but so far it hasn’t succeeded. Sen. Lynne Walz, Democrat from…