Officials may have to increase the amount of water released into the Missouri River over the next couple months to ensure there is enough water in the river for cities that rely on it for water and for barge traffic.
Catch up with today’s vaccination updates, data reports on new cases and other COVID-19 stats reported by health officials across Nebraska and Iowa. Keep scrolling to find helpful links and other related information, including phone numbers to call for help getting signed up for your vaccine.
Students and young adults will again be able to take the Black Votes Matter Black History Tour after COVID-19 forced organizers to cancel last year’s event.
On April 24, people named Josh gathered from across the country in Lincoln to crown the ultimate “Josh,” a playful social media challenge turned viral event and charitable fundraiser.
You’ll need a jacket out the door again today with temps in the 40s. Thankfully abundant sunshine will help us warm all day and we’ll end up in the mid 60s.
A decade-long battle has come to end in Hamburg, Iowa, with the town set to get the levee they’ve been asking for in the aftermath of two major floods.
In the panic of a life-and-death emergency, most wouldn’t worry about the cost of an ambulance. But there is a charge for a rescue squad and some health insurance policies may not cover the entire bill.
Nebraskans almost said goodbye to property taxes Wednesday. A plan that would have dramatically changed the way state residents pay taxes failed — by two votes — in the Unicameral.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is ramping up his crusade for the meat industry by endorsing a new “beef passport” program to promote meat-eating, a few weeks after he blasted Colorado’s governor for a resolution encouraging its residents to eat less.
Showers and any lingering storms push east overnight, with partly cloudy skies and lows in the lower-40s.More sunshine returns for Thursday, allowing temperatures to once again top out in the mid-60s, despite a northerly wind gusting up to 25 mph.
Catch up with today’s vaccination updates, data reports on new cases and other COVID-19 stats reported by health officials across Nebraska and Iowa. Keep scrolling to find helpful links and other related information, including phone numbers to call for help getting signed up for your vaccine.
Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said Wednesday that Omaha Police had arrested a man who failed to return to the Community Corrections Center in Lincoln last month.
Omaha Police are warning the public not to touch any blue or green pills that might otherwise appear to be oxycodone as they might actually be fentanyl.
The ACLU of Nebraska is pushing for a community news organization’s access to the governor’s press briefings and repeal of a restrictive credentialing process widely criticized by newsrooms and media organizations in the state.
The fate of a dam in northeast Nebraska Destroyed in 2019′s historic flooding has been decided. Millions in FEMA funds will be used to tear down the remains of Spencer Dam and it will not be rebuilt.
With some of the traditional vaccination clinics prepared to shut down, the health department is shifting gears on how to reach the next segment of the population.
State lawmakers have rejected an attempt to steer more money into Nebraska’s small, rural K-12 schools, many of which receive little aid from the state because they have few students and are surrounded by valuable farmland.
A site that has been vacant since the city tore down an apartment complex in 2006 has been earmarked for affordable housing with the help of Habitat Omaha.
With lighter winds and mostly clear skies overnight, light patchy frost may form in the valleys in Western Iowa. Temperatures in the Metro should fall to around 40°, with a few more clouds moving in from the west late.
