A pair from Minnesota face felony drugs charges after a traffic stop in Nebraska turned up more than 2 pounds (0.91 kilograms) of marijuana, several packages of THC concentrate wax, vape pen cartridges and concentrated...

A western Nebraska communications provider is scrambling to restore service after a wintery weekend storm toppled three of the company’s service towers in the Nebraska Panhandle. The Scottsbluff Star Herald reports that...

The amount of water being released into the lower Missouri River is being reduced ahead of winter, so flooded areas along the river will see some relief. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the amount of water being...

The Justice Department has unsealed charges against two Russian men in what authorities say is one of the worst computer hacking and bank fraud schemes of the past decade. In a related move, the Treasury Department has...

Omaha police say they're searching for a pair of suspects in the shooting death of a 33-year-old man in the city’s Little Italy neighborhood south of downtown. Officers were called to the area around 2:40 p.m....

Police in Omaha say four people have been arrested in the August death of a man. The case began on Aug. 6, when officers were called to an apartment complex in the Radial Hills neighborhood north of midtown Omaha. There,...

Officials on Thursday confirmed a career military man and former superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy as the president of the University of Nebraska system. The university Board of Regents confirmed Walter “Ted” Carter...

A hepatitis A outbreak tied to blackberries sold in Fresh Thyme grocery stores now includes 16 confirmed cases in six states.

A Bennet volunteer firefighter is recovering after being injured while responding to a car fire east of Lincoln.

The city of Papillion is using signs to try to slow traffic at a downtown intersection where a 10-year-old girl was fatally hit by a car earlier this year.

As health officials scrutinize marijuana vaping, it’s increasingly on law enforcement’s radar, too.

Omaha police are investigating the death of a man found in a yard as a homicide.

A Lincoln man has pleaded no contest to motor vehicle homicide charges stemming from a 2018 crash that killed a member of the Cornhusker Marching Band.

Eight full-time employees at the Nebraska State Fair have lost their jobs.

It could take up to two years to repair a 195-mile-long trail in northern Nebraska after major flooding damaged several segments used by bikers, hikers, runners and horse-riders.

Omaha is receiving a $4.7 million federal grant to help buy new city buses to replace older buses in its fleet.

Officials with the Nebraska State Patrol are warning against travel in the state’s Panhandle region, where strong winds and snow are creating blizzard-like conditions.

The Latest on powerful holiday weekend storm (all times local):

Officials say Heartland of America Park in downtown Omaha will be closing Monday for construction.

A powerful storm making its way east from California is expected to bring intensifying snow and ice to the Midwest during the year’s busiest travel weekend.

Omaha police are investigating a fatal shooting.

Authorities say four children have been killed in a Thanksgiving Day crash.

Two people accused in the shooting death of a man suspected of stealing a friend’s car are scheduled for trial next year in western Iowa.

Union Pacific wants a court to invalidate an 1872 pact requiring it to keep a certain number of railroad jobs in the Texas town of Palestine indefinitely.

A Lincoln man accused of possessing and sharing child pornography has been imprisoned.

By The Associated Press

Authorities say a man was fatally injured when he was knocked off the top of a viaduct in eastern Nebraska.

Authorities say firefighters have rescued a woman from her burning home in the eastern Nebraska city of Plattsmouth.

An Omaha man whose 4-month-old son died of a brain injury has been accused of child abuse resulting in death.

A man accused of providing to companies workers in the U.S. illegally has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to harbor those people.

A nurse practitioner from Iowa and a Nebraska farmer who died trying to rescue motorists will be honored Friday at the Heroes Game in Lincoln between the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Hawkeyes of the...

An Omaha woman who contracted hepatitis A after eating blackberries she bought at a Fresh Thyme grocery store has sued the company.

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A North Platte hospital is investigating a cyberattack that officials say has not compromised patient information.

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A man accused of fatally shooting a Lincoln resident wants to take back pleas he entered.

Two people already charged with kidnapping two people have been accused of killing one, whose body was found in a drainage pipe in southwest Nebraska.

The Latest on the pre-Thanksgiving wintry storm (all times local):

A storm packing heavy snow and high winds that wreaked havoc as it whipped through Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska is marching into the upper Midwest as anxious Thanksgiving travelers brace for a busy, if not perilous,...

Iowa farmers are set to receive the most government payments to offset damage from the U.S.’s ongoing trade war with China.

Authorities have dropped a child abuse charge that was leveled against a city councilman in the Omaha suburb of Papillion.

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A Columbus man is scheduled to be sentenced in January for the death of his passenger after the vehicle they were in crashed.

Some business owners at a western Iowa mall say they’re upset at being forced out of the building by the end of the year.

Authorities say a car driver died after his vehicle collided with a truck just north of the Lincoln Airport.

Another Nebraska prison is switching to 12-hour shifts for correctional employees in response to persistent staffing shortages.

Authorities say a woman died at a hospital after she was struck by a car while crossing a northwest Omaha street.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says he’ll try to persuade Charles Schwab to maintain a presence in Omaha following news that the online brokerage is buying rival TD Ameritrade and moving the combined company’s headquarters to...

Authorities say they’ve found the remains of a missing woman in southwest Nebraska and arrested three people suspected of involvement in her disappearance and in the kidnapping of another woman.

A woman accused of using a BB gun in trying to kill her mother at a western Nebraska motel has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

A northeast Nebraska man has been given four years in prison for locking two of his children in a bedroom and denying them food.

A 23-year-old Sioux City man has been charged with murder 15 months after the death of his girlfriend’s child.

The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings for northeastern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming and western Nebraska, saying heavy snow in the region could hamper travel during Thanksgiving week.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is releasing rooster pheasants at 14 wildlife management areas in time for the Thanksgiving weekend.

Investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested a Phelps County sheriff’s deputy on suspicion of third-degree assault and child abuse for an altercation that left a 15-year-old girl with a black eye.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has set a Nov. 30 deadline for public comments on potential changes to duck zone and goose unit boundaries.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced it will award $6.6 million in airport infrastructure grants to the Ainsworth Regional Airport in western Nebraska and another $5.5 million to two airports in Iowa.

Local officials say they’ve found a long-term fix for a tunnel failure that left a large area of Wyoming and Nebraska farmland without irrigation water.

Classes in Arlington, about 35 miles northwest of Omaha, have been cancelled because of a suspected outbreak of norovirus.

Nebraska wildlife officials say a woman was attacked and severely injured by a deer in south-central Nebraska this week.

Nebraska is temporarily lifting weight restrictions on trucks carrying propane to address a shortage of heating fuels.

Officials in a southeast Nebraska county are considering a change to their local wind-energy regulations at the request of a group that opposes the growing presence of wind farms in rural areas.