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NDOT Announces Funding Availability for Transportation Needs

Aug 16, 2024 / NDOT

Aug. 16, 2024 (Lincoln, Neb.) — The Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) has announced funds are now available to private non-pr...

Smith Calls out IRS Failures to Update Technology Systems

Aug 15, 2024 / Press Release

Today, Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE), released the following statement after a report from the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration fo...

Rural Mainstreet Economy Fell to 2024 Low

Aug 15, 2024 / Creighton University

August 2024 Survey Results at a Glance: For a 12th straight month, the overall Rural Mainstreet Index sank below growth neutral, according to bank...

NDOT Announces Infrastructure Hub to Support Transportation Network Development

Aug 15, 2024 / NDOT

Aug. 14, 2024 (Lincoln, Neb.) — The Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) announced the launch of the state’s first-ever in...

RTC inmate death

Aug 15, 2024 / DOC

(Lincoln, Neb.) – Duane Schriner #34953, age 69, died Wednesday morning at the Reception and Treatment Center Skilled Nursing Facility. Schr...

Ricketts To Host Federal Spending Briefings Across Nebraska

Aug 15, 2024 / Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) announced he will be hosting a series of Federal Spending Briefings across the st...

Two Arrested, Missing Juvenile Recovered Safely in Thomas County

Aug 15, 2024 / NSP

AUGUST 14, 2024 (NORTH PLATTE, NEB.)  — A multi-agency effort led to the recovery of a missing juvenile and the arrest of two men on sev...

NSP Launches Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Campaign

Aug 14, 2024 / Mikayla Hall – Marketing & Communications Specialist

AUGUST 14, (LINCOLN, NEB.)  —  The Nebraska State Patrol launched an enforcement campaign to close-out the summer travel season. Th...

Attorney General Mike Hilgers Challenges Biden-Harris Administration’s Unlawful Voter Registration Scheme

Aug 14, 2024 / AG

LINCOLN – Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers joined a coalition of nine attorneys general in challenging the Biden-Harris administration&...

Nebraska Crop Production & Progress Report

Aug 14, 2024 / USDA

NEBRASKA CROP PRODUCTION REPORTLINCOLN, Neb. August 12, 2024 - Based on August 1 conditions, Nebraska's 2024 corn production is forecast at 1.88 bi...

Nebraska Legislature Advances Scaled Back Property Tax Relief Plan

Aug 14, 2024 / Press Release

Governor Pillen Issues Statement Thanking Bipartisan Coalition of Senators for First-Round Advancement of Consensus Property Tax Relief Plan L...

Phillips Man Sentenced for Receipt and Possession of Child Pornography

Aug 14, 2024 / DOJ

United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Frantz Kolbjornsen, age 44, of Phillips, Nebraska, was sentenced on August 13, 2024, in federal co...

Process for Disclosing Foreign-Owned Land

Aug 13, 2024 / Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and Deb Fischer (R-NE) joined a bipartisan effort urging the U.S. Department of ...

Now Hiring Troopers! Nebraska State Patrol Opens Applications

Aug 12, 2024 / NSP

AUGUST 12, 2024 (LINCOLN, NEB.)  — The Nebraska State Patrol is now accepting applications to start a career serving Nebraskans as a Sta...

Ricketts Announces Upcoming Mobile Office Hours

Aug 12, 2024 / Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) announced his constituent casework staff will be hosting Mobile Office Hours arou...

Nebraska students’ environmental artwork to be featured in 2025 “Nebraska: Don’t Waste It!” calendar

Aug 12, 2024 / NDEE

The artwork of 13 Nebraska students will be featured in the 2025 “Nebraska: Don’t Waste It!” environmental calendar. The statewid...

Gov. Pillen Hosts 'One Nebraska' Ag and Economic Development Summit

Aug 12, 2024 / Press Release

LINCOLN, NE – This week, Governor Jim Pillen welcomed 600 leaders to Younes Conference Center North in Kearney for “One Nebraska: the G...

Losing the Pathway to Growth

Aug 12, 2024 / By Rep. Adrian Smith

Severe inflation, stock market turbulence, and troubling workforce data have driven recent economic concerns for American families already struggli...

Hastings rodeo to feature Mega Band, a combo of three area high school band

Aug 12, 2024 / Ruth Nicolaus For the Oregon Trail Rodeo

Hastings, Neb. (August 12, 2024) – Something new is coming to the Oregon Trail Rodeo in Hastings this weekend. The Mega Band, a band formed ...

Diamond Shruumz Product Recall and Notice to Nebraska Retailers

Aug 9, 2024 / AG

The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office is issuing a warning to retailers and consumers regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FD...

Education Officials Oppose New Property Tax Relief Plan

Aug 9, 2024 / Press Release

A coalition of education organizations has come out in opposition of the property tax relief plan which should come to the floor of the legislature...

Senator Ricketts’ Weekly Column: The Border Catastrophe Hurts Nebraska

Aug 9, 2024 / Pete Ricketts

Our country faces a safety, drug, and humanitarian catastrophe at the southern border. Yet the impacts of it are felt much closer to home. Since 20...

Serious Accident in Lincoln County

Aug 9, 2024 / Jerome J. Kramer Lincoln County Sheriff

At  7:28  AM deputies and EMS  were dispatched to MM 165 on Highway 30, near Hershey,  It was reported that there was a three v...

Attorney General Hilgers Joins Coalition to Stop Biden-Harris Administration from Extending Obamacare to Illegal Aliens

Aug 8, 2024 / AG

August 8, 2024 Lincoln – Attorney General Hilgers and a coalition of 15 state attorneys general led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Koba...

Nebraska is the Epicenter for Agricultural Drone Conferences in August 2024

Aug 8, 2024 / UNL

Lincoln, Neb. August 8, 2024 — Nebraska Extension is hosting two drone conferences on Wednesday, Aug. 14 and Thursday, Aug. 15 at West Centra...