Today: September 24, 2024
Today: September 24, 2024

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Education|News

Measure to repeal Nebraska’s private school funding law should appear on the ballot, court rules

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that a measure seeking to repeal a new conservative-backed law providing taxpayer money for private school tuition should appear on the state's November ballot

Measure to repeal Nebraska’s private school funding law should appear on the ballot, court rules
News|Opinion|Political

Nebraska ballot will include competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights, top court rules

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that competing measures that would expand or limit abortion rights can appear on the November ballot

Nebraska ballot will include competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights, top court rules
News

Women lawmakers take the lead in shaping policy in Nebraska. Advocates hope other states follow.

Women in the Nebraska Legislature largely took the reins in a recent special session called by Gov. Jim Pillen to lower property taxes

Women lawmakers take the lead in shaping policy in Nebraska. Advocates hope other states follow.
Education|Election|News

A measure to repeal a private school tuition funding law in Nebraska will make the November ballot

Nebraska's top election official says organizers have collected enough signatures to ask voters to repeal a new law that uses taxpayer money to fund private school tuition

A measure to repeal a private school tuition funding law in Nebraska will make the November ballot
News|Opinion|Political

Competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will appear on Nebraska’s November ballot

Nebraska voters will choose between two competing abortion measures to either expand abortion rights or limit them to the current 12-week ban

Competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will appear on Nebraska’s November ballot
Health|Opinion|Political

Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion

The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a law restricting access to both medical care for transgender youth and abortion

Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion
News|Political

Nebraskans with felony convictions could be denied voting rights under attorney general's opinion

Thousands of Nebraskans with felony convictions could be denied voting rights under an opinion from the state attorney general

Nebraskans with felony convictions could be denied voting rights under attorney general's opinion
News|Political

Commission backs Nebraska governor's return-to-office order

A Nebraska state employees union is considering an appeal after seeing its challenge to Gov. Jim Pillen's return-to-office order dismissed

News|Political

Nebraska Democrats back Omaha activist Preston Love Jr. to challenge Ricketts for US Senate seat

Longtime Omaha community activist Preston Love Jr. has announced he is seeking the Democratic nomination to represent Nebraska in the U.S. Senate

Business|Economy|News

Nebraska lawmaker seeks to ban corporations from buying up single-family homes

A Nebraska lawmaker is pushing a bill to forbid out-of-state hedge funds and other corporate entities from buying up single-family properties

Education|News|Political

A Nebraska bill to subject librarians to charges for giving 'obscene material' to children fails

A bill that would have held school librarians and teachers criminally responsible for providing “obscene material” to Nebraska students in grades K-12 failed to advance Wednesday in the Legislature

Health

A woman took her dog to a shelter to be euthanized. A year later, the dog is up for adoption again.

A woman is seeking answers after the sick dog she took to a shelter to have euthanized turned up more than a year later on a rescue adoption site

A woman took her dog to a shelter to be euthanized. A year later, the dog is up for adoption again.
Education|News|Opinion|Political

Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails

A new South Dakota Board of Regents policy keeps employees from including their gender pronouns in school email signatures and other correspondence

Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails
News|Political

Nebraska lawmakers pass a bill to restore voting rights to newly released felons

Nebraska lawmakers have passed a bill to restore of voting rights of those convicted of felonies upon the completion of their sentences, including prison and parole time

Nebraska lawmakers pass a bill to restore voting rights to newly released felons
News|Political

National, state GOP figures gather in Omaha to push for winner-take-all elections in Nebraska

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is calling on Nebraska Republicans to put pressure on state lawmakers to adopt a “winner-take-all” system of awarding Electoral College votes

National, state GOP figures gather in Omaha to push for winner-take-all elections in Nebraska
Health|News|Political

Nebraska lawmakers to debate a bill on transgender students' access to bathrooms and sports teams

A Nebraska bill to limit transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams has advanced out of committee with just days to go until the end of the session

Nebraska lawmakers to debate a bill on transgender students' access to bathrooms and sports teams
News|Political

Nebraska lawmaker who targeted a colleague during a graphic description of rape is reprimanded

An outside investigator has found that a Nebraska lawmaker who invoked the name of a colleague while reading a graphic account of rape violated the body’s sexual harassment policy

Nebraska lawmaker who targeted a colleague during a graphic description of rape is reprimanded
News|Political

Months ahead of the presidential election, Nebraska's GOP governor wants a winner-take-all system

Nebraska’s Republican governor is calling on state lawmakers to move forward with a “winner-take-all” system of awarding Electoral College votes

Months ahead of the presidential election, Nebraska's GOP governor wants a winner-take-all system
Education|News|Political

A Nebraska senator who name-checked a colleague while reading about rape is under investigation

A Nebraska lawmaker is now the subject of a sexual harassment investigation

A Nebraska senator who name-checked a colleague while reading about rape is under investigation
News|Political

A Nebraska lawmaker faces backlash for invoking a colleague's name in a graphic account of rape

A Nebraska lawmaker is facing calls for his resignation after reading a graphic account of rape that included a colleague's name on the floor of the Nebraska Legislature

A Nebraska lawmaker faces backlash for invoking a colleague's name in a graphic account of rape
Environment|News

Warm weather brings brings a taste of spring to central and western United States

A warm front is sweeping springlike weather across a large swath of the country in what is usually one of the coldest months of the year

Warm weather brings brings a taste of spring to central and western United States
Business|Education|News|Political

Nebraska governor reverses course and says state will take federal funding to feed children

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has reversed course and now says he will accept federal funding to help feed hungry children during the summer break

Nebraska governor reverses course and says state will take federal funding to feed children
News|Political|Technology

A Nebraska bill would hire a hacker to probe the state's computer, elections systems

Nebraska state Sen_ Loren Lippincott is touting a bill that would give the Nebraska State Patrol $200,000 to hire “an ethical hacker.”

A Nebraska bill would hire a hacker to probe the state's computer, elections systems
Business|News|Technology

Preliminary test crashes indicate the nation's guardrail system can't handle heavy electric vehicles

Preliminary tests by a University of Nebraska road safety research facility and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers point to concerns that the nation’s roadside guardrails are no match for new heavy electric vehicles

Preliminary test crashes indicate the nation's guardrail system can't handle heavy electric vehicles
Education|News|Political|Sports

Critics pan planned $450M Nebraska football stadium renovation as academic programs face cuts

University of Nebraska officials have unveiled a plan for a $450 million renovation of its football stadium in Lincoln

Critics pan planned $450M Nebraska football stadium renovation as academic programs face cuts

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