Topic: Statewide

Statewide means what it sounds like — stories as relevant in Valentine as they are in Nebraska City. These are issues that touch all of us. Think: the environment, legislative policy, universities and more.

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‘A very unconventional case’: How Jewel Rodgers is transforming the role of Nebraska state poet

Post author By Tynan Stewart
Post date Oct. 9

Lindsey Lyons, a counselor at Revive Inc. in Hastings, holds a photo of her brother Derrek Cocchiarella.

QUICK HIT: Dying Blind

Post author By Destiny Herbers
Post date Sept. 26

Four screenshots of Julie Montpetit and inmate Nicholas Ely taken from a phone during video chats in the fall and winter of 2024. Montpetit said Ely was proposing marriage in the final screenshot.

A Nebraska inmate went on his girlfriend’s podcast. Then the prison cut off their contact.

Post author By Sara Gentzler
Post date Sept. 24

We don’t know the real number of Nebraskans dying from drugs. It’s costing us.

Post author By Destiny Herbers
Post date Sept. 18

A 2024 state law requires that we map overdose deaths. We still aren’t.

Post author By Destiny Herbers
Post date Sept. 18

Paul Weishapl, a harm reduction instructor in UNMC’s College of Public Health, holds a dose of Narcan.

How we reported ‘Dying Blind’

Post author By Destiny Herbers
Post date Sept. 18

Changing media landscape leaves some Nebraska communities with no reliable local news, experts say

Post author By Emily Wolf
Post date Sept. 17

Illustration showing uniformed officers standing in a hallway outside a jail cell.

An inmate died in a Nebraska prison fire. That was just the first tragedy.

Post author By Sara Gentzler, Flatwater Free Press and Andrew Wegley, Lincoln Journal Star
Post date Sept. 12

As cuts deepen at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, programs and colleges hang in the balance

Post author By Emily Wolf
Post date Sept. 5

License plate readers in Nebraska help ICE conduct immigration enforcement efforts

Post author By Emily Wolf
Post date Aug. 27

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