Eligible landowners are being urged to enroll cropland affected by the 2011 Missouri River flood into two federal land conservation programs to take advantage of flood habitat recovery funds.

A 20-year-old Hemingford woman has admitted helping hide the body of a Denver man in northwest Nebraska months before her boyfriend died in an armed standoff.

The first application period for big-game hunting permits begins Monday and runs through June 7.

That "pain at the pump" has never been worse for Omaha drivers.

Corn planting has finally gotten under way in Iowa, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture figures.

As lawmakers try to adjourn the legislative session, some wonder whether the best way to deal with a contentious health debate is to skip the matter for now and hold a special session later.

Nebraska lawmakers are forging ahead slowly this year with the state budget, a new school funding formula, and an overhaul of juvenile services, but some of the most contentious priorities will likely have to wait.

Lincoln's public power utility has announced plans to triple the amount of wind energy it uses now within the next two years.

Many in the motorcycle community gathered today, paying tribute to a fallen friend.

Police say a man stabbed his estranged girlfriend at least 20 times in a Grand Island church parking lot before cutting his own throat and fleeing.

Food on the stove started the fire that chased a Bellevue family from their home early Sunday morning.

Emergency crews responded to 48th and Cornhusker just before 6:00 p.m. Saturday.

Omaha police said Saturday that Chief Todd Schmaderer will hold a news conference Monday afternoon to update the investigation into the murders of a Creighton University professor and his wife.

A Coggon, Iowa woman was killed and her young daughter injured in a two-vehicle crash Saturday morning.

An Omaha gay-rights group is seeking the return of $1,800 donated to a Lincoln woman later convicted of lying about being attacked in her home by masked men who carved anti-gay slurs into her skin.

What better way to enjoy a Nebraska state park on a beautiful day than to get in free. Saturday was Free Fishing and Park Entry Day at all state parks.

It’ll be a disappointing summer for air show lovers since the Offutt Air Show was canceled because of the sequestration, but the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland helped fill that void a little Saturday with Helicopter Day.

Officials are hoping for the return of 40 personalized bricks destined for a North Platte, Nebraska veterans' memorial that someone intercepted at the memorial group's office, then hauled off.

The University of Nebraska is offering a two-day tour that will focus on the state's water resources.

At their next meeting, Nebraska Game and Parks commissioners will consider a staff recommendation to create a mountain lion hunting season.

Eugene T. Mahoney State Park will be the site of a run to raise money for wildlife conservation next month.

Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida over the past few days and bought a winning Powerball ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million.

A woman was arrested after Omaha police say she punched and bit an officer Saturday morning.

Lawmakers are planning to review why few Nebraska students who receive free and reduced-price lunches also participate in the federal funded breakfast program.

Federal regulators have sided with an engineer who was fired for reporting unsafe conditions created by a contractor at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in eastern Kansas.