Profiles
As most stories that begin with a guy sitting alone at a bar, it’s usually about a woman; this time at least… it was about interviewing one. While waiting, I took out my little black book and started...
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around, does it make a sound … Well, without our air, which is filled with molecules, the world would be silent. Sound is a vibration carried by acoustic...
With a booming thud, the drum group begins playing traditional Native American dance music. The group’s singers belt out Lakota (Sioux) lyrics as a woman dressed in regalia begins performing a jingle...
Flying drones. Changing oil and rotating tires. Taking care of elderly patients. At Bellevue Public Schools, it's all part of a day at school.
Vocational education has gained attention as public...
There is a conversation to be had about mental health that hasn’t happened yet. Not anywhere in all the earth has it happened to any degree of merit because the person that needs to have it, has yet...
Today’s News
The view is shown from Norfolk’s North Fork Whitewater Park and Johnson Park. (Courtesy of City of Norfolk)
NORFOLK, Nebraska — New Census estimates have Nebraska’s population topping 2 million for the first time. It’s a safe bet that recent population growth is primarily happening in our state’s major...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — So much of the technology showcased at CES includes gadgets made to improve consumers' lives — whether by leveraging AI to make devices that help people become more efficient, by...
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight
by Daniel Rothberg for ProPublica and Dayvid Figler, City Cast Las Vegas
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
In previous eras of internet culture, mockery of the rich and famous was usually relegated to far-left forums.
But as 2025 begins, ridiculing the rich appears to have gone mainstream.
Look no further...
LINCOLN — The conservative stronghold on the officially nonpartisan Nebraska Legislature became clearer Wednesday, as state lawmakers chose Republicans for the top leadership spots on all but one of...
This Week's News
The view is shown from Norfolk’s North Fork Whitewater Park and Johnson Park. (Courtesy of City of Norfolk)
01/14/2025 - 6:00am
NORFOLK, Nebraska — New Census estimates have Nebraska’s population topping 2 million for the first time. It’s a safe bet that recent population growth is primarily happening in our state’s major cities, which act as engines propelling new business...
01/14/2025 - 5:00am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — So much of the technology showcased at CES includes gadgets made to improve consumers' lives — whether by leveraging AI to make devices that help people become more efficient, by creating companions to cure loneliness or by...
01/14/2025 - 4:00am
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight
by Daniel Rothberg for ProPublica and Dayvid Figler, City Cast Las Vegas
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story...
01/14/2025 - 3:00am
In previous eras of internet culture, mockery of the rich and famous was usually relegated to far-left forums.
But as 2025 begins, ridiculing the rich appears to have gone mainstream.
Look no further than the Walmart handbag that mimics the look of...
01/13/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — The conservative stronghold on the officially nonpartisan Nebraska Legislature became clearer Wednesday, as state lawmakers chose Republicans for the top leadership spots on all but one of 17 key legislative committees.
The lone Democrat...
01/13/2025 - 6:00am
In the heat of the summer, the distant cold of the winter seems a smudged dream: hazy, and far off. Unlike a normal dream, it comes with the perfect assurance that the pallid cold will come regardless of how well one does or how many mistakes are...
Jose Ibarra, accused of killing a nursing student, Laken Hope Riley, appears in court for a motion hearing on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (Brynn Anderson / AP Photo)
01/13/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed its first bill of the 119th Congress Tuesday, a measure that increases migrant detention and is named after a Georgia nursing student whose murder President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly tied to the Biden...
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni holds the 2024 year-end press conference, in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Alessandra Tarantino / AP Photo)
Italy's Meloni Hopes To Attend Trump Inauguration As She Downplays His Greenland And Panama Comments
01/13/2025 - 4:00am
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said Thursday she didn’t believe President-elect Donald Trump actually intends to use military force to seize control of Greenland or the Panama Canal, saying she read his comments more as a warning to...
01/13/2025 - 4:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ran on a return to his "America First” foreign policy platform. The U.S., he said, could no longer afford to be the world's policeman. On his watch, he pledged, there would be no new wars.
But since winning a second term...
01/13/2025 - 3:00am
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States in November 2024, the German state-owned news service Deutsche Welle published an article with the headline “Trump’s election victory is a nightmare for Germany.”
A few...
01/10/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — Speaker John Arch of La Vista this week outlined the Nebraska Legislature’s biggest 2025 issue as lawmakers return to Lincoln: the state budget.
Arch, who is so far running unopposed to helm Nebraska’s legislative branch for two more years...
Luigi Mangione is escorted into Manhattan Criminal court for his arraignment on state murder and terror charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, in New York. (Seth Wenig / AP Photo)
01/10/2025 - 5:00am
My book “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It” was thrust into the spotlight recently, after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in what authorities say was a targeted attack...
01/10/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — A new state law could lead to greater efficiency in setting rules, regulations and safety standards for some of Nebraska’s smallest school districts.
Nebraska Education Commissioner Brian Maher reclassified or shifted roughly 80% of the...
01/10/2025 - 3:00am
Anchorage Police Say They Witnessed a Sexual Assault in Public. It Took Seven Years for the Case to Go to Trial.
by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story...
Paul Feilmann asks tenants questions about bug infestations at Omaha Housing Authority apartments. For months, the activist sat outside Underwood Tower with a sign calling on the housing authority to improve living conditions for tenants. (Jeremy Turley / Flatwater Free Press)
01/09/2025 - 7:00am
A class-action lawsuit filed Monday alleges the Omaha Housing Authority failed to eliminate bed bug infestations at high-rise apartments for low-income residents.
The new lawsuit, brought by a pioneering firm in bed bug litigation, comes after a...
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01/09/2025 - 6:00am
I’m going to give you a reading test. Ready? Say these words out loud:
Chip
Hill
Jars
Bep
Fod
Glork
If you’re an adult seeing this, with years and years of reading experience, your brain probably processed the list pretty quickly. You...
01/09/2025 - 5:00am
GRETNA, Nebraska — When State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan proposed legislation to create good life districts two years ago, she envisioned the result would be a Nebraska tourist magnet akin to Kansas City’s Legends retail complex or Minnesota’s Mall of...
01/09/2025 - 4:00am
LONDON (AP) — A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday.
The...
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The Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Omaha, Neb. with steam rising out of the Missouri River on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. (Chris Machian / Omaha World-Herald via AP)
01/09/2025 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — First a bridge and now a Navy destroyer has been named after former Nebraska governor and U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey.
This week, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer...
Jackson Strohbeck, with Baxmeyer Construction Co. Inc, dumps a load of snow on, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, as he and several other front-loader operators work to clear the parking lot at the Crossings at Northwest in St. Ann, Mo. (Christian Gooden / St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
01/09/2025 - 2:00am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The plunging polar vortex brought subfreezing temperatures Tuesday to some of the southernmost points of the U.S., threatening to dump snow on parts of Texas and Oklahoma in the coming days and contributing to a power outage...
01/08/2025 - 7:00am
Slow and steady, 25-year-old Jake Harvath rode his trusty white mare, Bella, down Highway 189 toward Charleston, Utah, with his other two mustangs, Denver and Eddy, in tow.
Motorists roared by in the comfort of their modern modes of transport, but...
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01/08/2025 - 6:00am
In a bit of linguistic gymnastics, a number of states have now banned book bans in public libraries and public schools.
Nebraska should be next in banning book bans. We’ve already hitched the Big Red Wagon to other states in lawsuits from voter...
Students sit on the floor as they have their meals during the kick off of President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious free meal program to feed children and pregnant women nationwide at an elementary school in Banten, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (Tatan Syuflana / AP Photo)
01/08/2025 - 5:00am
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's new government started an ambitious project on Monday to fight malnutrition by feeding nearly 90 million children and pregnant women that is expected to cost $28 billion through 2029, although critics question...
01/08/2025 - 4:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — CES, the annual trade show of all things tech, is upon us.
The multi-day event, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, kicks off this week in Las Vegas — where swaths of the latest gadgets and advances across industries...
