Authorities say a man's been rescued after being trapped in a Lincoln storm drain for at least 24 hours.

Proposals under consideration in an Omaha suburb could lead to the ouster of elected officials who leak information from meetings not open to the public.

Voters have recalled two northeast Nebraska county commissioners who were elected less than a year ago.

A Lincoln middle school science and English teacher has earned a Milken Educator Award, which carries a $25,000 cash prize.

Nebraska state government collected more tax revenue than expected in September.

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Business, education and government leaders have announced a new effort to produce and recruit more tech workers for Nebraska.

The local debut of a movie shot in North Platte is scheduled for Friday night.

Court records say a man charged with breaking into the Islamic Center of Lawrence and stealing donations boxes was in possession of almost $1,200 in cash when he was arrested in a Kansas City suburb several days later.

Omaha's mayor says she supports a proposal to expand a tobacco tax to including vaping.

The University of Nebraska has hired its former president as a consultant for $250,000 a year to help raise money to build a new $155 million football and operations complex.

The death of a 32-year-old Douglas County jail inmate is being investigated to determine why she died.

Youths 15 and younger are encouraged to participate in the statewide youth pheasant, quail and partridge season on Oct. 19-20.

People who want to help preserve monarch butterflies can obtain free milkweed seed pods through the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.

Nebraska lawmakers who pledged to lower property taxes are getting ready to try again with a proposal that would boost state aid for K-12 public schools while restricting the districts' taxing power.

A jury has found a trucking company to be negligent in a deadly 2017 highway collision and awarded $40.5 million in damages to the family of a Deming woman who died in the wreck.

Nebraska State Fair officials are blaming heavy rains for a drop in attendance and revenue at this summer's fair.

Police say an Omaha man has died in a late-night crash.

State transportation officials have announced the opening of a bridge near the northeast Nebraska town of Pender that had been significantly damaged in historic spring flooding.

Authorities in western Nebraska say a Scottsbluff man has died in a crash on an icy highway near the border of Dawes County and Sheridan County.

The Nebraska State Patrol says a trooper found nearly 70 pounds (31.75 kilograms) of marijuana inside gift-wrapped boxes in a vehicle.

Authorities in western Nebraska say a Scottsbluff man has died in a crash on an icy highway near the border of Dawes County and Sheridan County.

Authorities say a man died after a vehicle rolled onto him in the central Nebraska community of Ord.

Some people forced from their homes by Missouri River floodwaters will be leaving their refuge at an Iowa state park.

Omaha-based Scooter's Coffee is buying a local competitor, Crane Coffee.

A state prisoner reported missing from a community facility in Lincoln has been found in an Omaha suburb.

State officials say Nebraska's tax commissioner was not involved in the decision to approve up to $200 million in tax incentives for a mining company in which he is a shareholder.

A Papillion city councilman has been cited for suspicion of negligent child abuse after being accused of leaving bruises on his girlfriend's 5-year-old son.

A 15-year-old southeastern Nebraska boy has been arrested after being accused of making a school threat last month that school officials didn't initially report to authorities.

A powerful winter-like storm moving through the Great Plains is closing schools and causing travel headaches in multiple states.

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A former financial controller of an Omaha business has been given a year and a day in prison for not paying federal withholding taxes.

Across a vast expanse of the South spanning from Texas to Maryland, there are growing concerns for the cattle, cotton and corn amid a worsening drought that has been fueled this past summer by record hot temperatures.

Court records show the shooting deaths last month of an Offutt Air Force Base airman and his wife are being investigated as a murder-suicide.

Two tribal leaders have resigned from a Montana task force in protest of the state attorney general's support of a proposed oil pipeline from Canada.

A fall snowstorm is snarling traffic and causing power outages in the Rocky Mountains as it slowly moves across the northern U.S. toward the Great Plains.

A Montana judge must decide whether to once again block the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline or side with the U.S. government attorneys who want him to uphold President Donald Trump's permit to cross the U.S.-Canada...

Police have released the name of a man who was fatally shot by a uniformed railroad officer after the man rammed his truck into a Nebraska restaurant.

The state attorney general's office has filed two more misdemeanor charges against the top prosecutor in central Nebraska's Custer County.

Authorities say a man was killed when his car crashed into an oncoming semitrailer in southern Nebraska's Frontier County.

A woman has been accused of stealing more than $100,000 while working for a Beatrice insurance agency.

Authorities say a woman was killed and an infant with her was injured when her sport utility vehicle crashed into the back of a truck in south-central Nebraska.

Nebraska state officials have received $6.5 million in federal grants to help prevent and treat opioid abuse.

Police have arrested a teenager suspected of fatally shooting a man at a store in east Omaha.

Forecasters say a wintry storm system could drop up to 10 inches (25.4 centimeters) of snow on northwest Nebraska later this week.

A Nebraska judge has imprisoned an Iowa man who authorities say was driving drunk when his pickup truck rammed into a sports car in north Omaha, fatally injuring two other Iowa men.

A former postal employee has been given 25 years in prison for kidnapping a driver while stealing a U.S. Postal Service truck and its contents in Grand Island.

The cost of long-term repairs to a failed irrigation tunnel serving farmers in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska could reach $68 million.

Authorities say a pickup truck driver has died in a rollover crash on Interstate 80 in western Nebraska.

A Wisconsin woman has been imprisoned for sex trafficking a 16-year-old girl in Iowa and Nebraska

Terrytown council members have decided to put off indefinitely a proposed ordinance that would have barred anyone from feeding geese, other waterfowl or other wild critters inside city limits.

Nebraska farmers should watch out for power lines when harvesting their crops this fall.

Nebraskans will need to spend nearly $1 billion over the next few decades to remove ash trees killed by an invasive pest, but local governments probably won't be able to afford the cost and it's not clear how much...

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey is scheduled to deliver a lecture later this month at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Nebraska State Patrol says a 16-year-old boy has died in a crash near central Nebraska's Westerville.

Authorities say a 21-year-old woman who was hit by a sport utility vehicle last month while crossing a northwest Omaha street has died from her injuries.

The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has disbanded its University of Nebraska at Omaha chapter following a woman's complaint that a man groped her at during a party at the chapter's house last month.

Construction has begun in south-central Iowa on a $13.5 million, 50,000 square-foot facility to train power pole linemen in several Midwest states.

Wayne State College is the recipient of a $1.8 million donation announced by the Gardner Foundation for the college's athletics programs.

Beatrice High School officials say two freshmen students have admitted painting swastikas on the front balcony of the school's fine arts center.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has rejected a post-conviction appeal of a man who killed two Brazilian missionaries and their 7-year-old son over a money dispute in Omaha 10 years ago.

Authorities say a passenger was fatally injured in a collision south of Wymore in southeast Nebraska.

Proposed social studies standards for Nebraska schoolchildren would encourage them to look at history from multiple perspectives.

Google is holding a groundbreaking Friday morning for a $600 million data center it plans to build in an Omaha suburb.

Motorists driving on a stretch of Interstate 80 north of Lincoln will be able to go a little faster starting Friday.

After an unusually rainy September in the region, the amount of water flowing down the lower Missouri River this year is likely to match the 2011 record.