Profiles
She emigrated from Russia to Minnesota, fresh after graduating college, with scant money to her name – to no doubt achieve the American dream.
At that point, a law career wasn’t even visible on the...
Former Husker football coach Tom Osborne (center), speaks at a February 2023 event with Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (just behind Osborne), at which Pillen designated the month as “Nebraska Mentoring Month.” (Courtesy of Nebraska Governor’s Office)
LINCOLN — The full Nebraska Legislature is set to weigh whether to make an exception in state law to add former Husker football coach and former U.S. Rep. Tom Osborne to the Nebraska Hall of Fame as...
Though my email address is at the bottom of each of the articles that I have written, the only people to ever send me replies are restaurants looking to get reviewed by me, while strangely I have yet...
In the way that a needle rips your senses from their lazy slumber, the first below-zero day of the winter brought with it a piercing chill. It had been put off for too long, pushed back by a warm...
Attorneys preparing to appear before Judge Richard McGowan may want to plan for a late morning docket, as Douglas County's newest judge isn't known as a morning person.
McGowan was sworn in as judge...
Today’s News
SUGARLOAF, Pa. (AP) — For John Zola, the 40 acres were like a paradise: apple orchards tucked into northern Pennsylvania's rolling hills, a barn, meadows and more than enough land for four houses:...
LINCOLN — Nebraska policy-makers have talked “ad nauseam” about a statewide housing and worker shortage and the need to do something about it, State Sen. Jane Raybould of Lincoln said Monday, echoing...
ODAKA, Japan (AP) — Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted...
Emma MacTaggart, founder of What's the Stitch needlepoint business, is photographed in her studio, in New York, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo / Richard Drew)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — By age 23, Emma MacTaggart was already noticing how rare her free time was — and how it was seldom screen-free.
She was working long hours in investment banking and once she was...
Drivers wait in line at a mobile food bank organized by Crossroads Mission Avenue near the Tyson Foods' beef plant in Lexington, Neb., Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (Thomas Peipert / AP Photo)
OMAHA — A $1.1 million gift from Omaha-based Sherwood Foundation aims to provide emergency help to former Tyson Foods employees still looking for work after the company closed its Lexington, Nebraska...
This Week's News
03/12/2026 - 12:00am
SUGARLOAF, Pa. (AP) — For John Zola, the 40 acres were like a paradise: apple orchards tucked into northern Pennsylvania's rolling hills, a barn, meadows and more than enough land for four houses: one for himself and his wife and each of his three...
03/12/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska policy-makers have talked “ad nauseam” about a statewide housing and worker shortage and the need to do something about it, State Sen. Jane Raybould of Lincoln said Monday, echoing the sentiment of several colleagues.
On a 32-8...
03/12/2026 - 12:00am
ODAKA, Japan (AP) — Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted hometown in northeastern Fukushima.
Kobayashi...
Housing costs are making it harder for communities and businesses to lure workers to open jobs in Nebraska and elsewhere. (Nati Harnik / AP Photo)
03/12/2026 - 12:00am
When Americans decide where to live, they rarely talk about regulation. They talk about jobs, taxes, affordability, opportunity and whether a place feels open to building a future.
Yet behind each of those considerations lies a quieter force shaping...
03/12/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Early construction work has launched on a long-awaited “critical minerals” mine in southeast Nebraska, with state and local officials starting the digging during a recent briefing at the project site.
U.S. Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., was...
Emma MacTaggart, founder of What's the Stitch needlepoint business, is photographed in her studio, in New York, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo / Richard Drew)
03/11/2026 - 12:00am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — By age 23, Emma MacTaggart was already noticing how rare her free time was — and how it was seldom screen-free.
She was working long hours in investment banking and once she was finally able to log off after work, she would turn...
03/11/2026 - 12:00am
Every morning, people fasten their watch, slip on a bracelet and head out the door without thinking much about what they might encounter along the way. The air they breathe, the dust on their hands and the surfaces they touch all feel ordinary. Yet...
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03/11/2026 - 12:00am
I had to nearly trot to keep up with Teresa as she made her way down the main boulevard to the stable. Even when I told her the son of God had given me this mission, she seemed more focused on the fact that there were children to be saved....
Drivers wait in line at a mobile food bank organized by Crossroads Mission Avenue near the Tyson Foods' beef plant in Lexington, Neb., Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (Thomas Peipert / AP Photo)
03/11/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — A $1.1 million gift from Omaha-based Sherwood Foundation aims to provide emergency help to former Tyson Foods employees still looking for work after the company closed its Lexington, Nebraska, plant in January.
The donation was announced...
George Achola, a representative of the team working on the northeast Omaha business park development, explains during a January community meeting that a possible use for part of a 67-acre area near 16th and Locust Streets includes a youth sports facility. That is one of two sites the team decided to purchase for the business park initiative. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
03/10/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — After years of talk, concepts and controversy, creation of a northeast Omaha industrial business park reached a major milestone.
Revealed Thursday: The team that in early 2024 was awarded a $90 million state grant to develop shovel-ready...
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03/10/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature is trying to clean up a new law meant to be tough on foreign adversaries.
State Sen. Eliot Bostar of Lincoln, who authored the Foreign Adversary and Terrorist Agent Registration Act that passed in 2025 with Gov....
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When Unpaid Cooking, Cleaning And Child Care Get A Dollar Value, Income Inequality In The US Shrinks
03/10/2026 - 12:00am
When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending.
But a significant share of the services that families actually consume – meals cooked at home, child care, housecleaning and lawn mowing – is produced by unpaid labor...
A series of Foxconn or Hon Hai electric vehicles (EV) on display inside the company's complex in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo / Daniel Ceng)
03/09/2026 - 3:35pm
ATLANTA (AP) — Battery company SK Battery America Inc. laid off nearly 1,000 workers at a manufacturing plant northeast of Atlanta on Friday amid automakers' changing electrification plans and uncertain consumer demand for EVs.
The company said...
State Sen. Myron Dorn of Adams (center), speaks with State Sens. John Fredrickson of Omaha (left), and Bruce Bostelman of Brainard, July 30, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/09/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — State budget tensions boiled over onto the floor of the Nebraska Legislature Thursday in the aftermath of lawmakers’ rejecting a $50 million proposal to increase the state’s cigarette tax.
Lawmakers appear to be in a standoff over options...
Pflugerville police officers stand outside a Walmart near the Pflugerville Justice Center in Pflugerville, Texas, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, as law enforcement responds to a student protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman via AP)
03/09/2026 - 12:00am
Several Democratic states are moving to bar federal immigration agents from being near polling places and other election sites, amid persistent worries that President Donald Trump will use federal law enforcement or the military to disrupt the...
Pflugerville police officers stand outside a Walmart near the Pflugerville Justice Center in Pflugerville, Texas, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, as law enforcement responds to a student protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman via AP)
03/09/2026 - 12:00am
Several Democratic states are moving to bar federal immigration agents from being near polling places and other election sites, amid persistent worries that President Donald Trump will use federal law enforcement or the military to disrupt the...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears for an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo, File)
03/09/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be leaving the post for a job as a special envoy, following an appearance before a U.S. Senate panel this week that provoked bipartisan criticism of her...
Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks beside Vice President JD Vance during a news conference on efforts to combat fraud, in the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, in Washington. (Tom Brenner / AP Photo)
03/09/2026 - 12:00am
State Medicaid budgets will be reduced by a total of $665 billion over the next decade, after President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts federal investment in the health insurance program, according to a new analysis.
Researchers from...
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03/06/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers is suing online gaming platform Roblox to hold it “accountable for misleading Nebraska parents and children about the dangers” of the platform and steps the company took “to address those dangers.”...
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03/06/2026 - 12:00am
The Oregon Supreme Court on Feb. 5, 2026, issued a ruling that will have a wide impact. More than 1,400 criminal cases had to be dismissed, the justices ruled, due to lack of adequate counsel available for defendants.
Like other states, Oregon must...
