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The holiday spectacle that inspired Nebraska’s Christmas City moniker requires roughly 12,000 lights, 100 actors and plenty of small-town hardiness.
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.
See the Top 100 buyers of Nebraska farmland, by both money and amount of land.
The University of Nebraska campus plans to end or cut deeply into several programs in the arts and humanities. Leaders say there’s little choice and the programs have low enrollments.
The Simmons family is one of a growing number of Sandhills ranchers raising bison, whose numbers continue to increase in Nebraska.
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.
Gene Hunt didn’t plan on becoming a park superintendent. Now he’s one of Nebraska Game and Parks’ longest-serving employees.
Fort Kearny event to highlight the Civil War-era service of the Pawnee Scouts, valuable allies who were forced from their homeland in Nebraska.
Nebraska still lags behind other states in remote work, but the number of remote workers has doubled. It’s making a difference in Valentine.
The McBride family continues to sell boots, hats and western wear items to Nebraskans at Ranch-Land, just as they have since 1959.