In an op-ed, Nebraska state Chamber of Commerce president Matt Williams writes about efforts to make Nebraska more competitive.
- CHRIS DUNKER Lincoln Journal Star
Students were unable to access exams, assignments or grades after a system outage. Hackers claimed they accessed data from millions of users across thousands of schools.
- LORI PILGER Lincoln Journal Star
A 25-year-old Lincoln man has been jailed in connection with a shipment of nearly 100 pounds of marijuana and roughly 100 THC vape cartridges.
- TOMER RONEN Lincoln Journal Star
Former state Sen. Tom Brewer said keeping the land on tax rolls is critical to county governments, and if it stopped, they could "collapse."
- CHRISTOPHER BURBACH Flatwater Free Press
Despite national debates over voting laws, Nebraska’s rules remain unchanged for the May primary.
- ANNA KLEIBER Lincoln Journal Star
Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts said the U.S. needs to wrap up its conflict in Iran and work to bring economic relief to working Americans and farmers impacted by rising fuel prices.
- Justin Frommer World-Herald Staff Writer
Nebraska volleyball will take its "traveling circus" to Dallas, Chicago and other spots this season, growing the sport along the way.
Access to specialty care in western Nebraska increasingly depends on geography, and for many rural communities, distance remains a major barrier.
Nebraska volleyball filled in a huge chunk of its 2026 schedule puzzle with this week’s announcement of home and road matches in Big Ten play. Here are three takeaways.
New research commissioned by a group petitioning to legalize online sports betting found that doing so could generate just under $87 million in new state tax revenue over five years.
Instacart examined Mother's Day gifts trends in South Dakota based on 2025 data.
- MAUNETTE LOEKS Star-Herald
A 17-year-old Scottsbluff teen charged in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old teen will see his case continue in Scotts Bluff County District Court following a ruling from the Nebraska Court of Appeals. The ruling was released Tuesday.
- Sam McKewon World-Herald Sports Editor
This week's Mailbag examines the negativity around Nebraska's football program, the best Big Ten wins of the Matt Rhule, more NIL chatter and recent Husker baseball struggles.
- CHRIS DUNKER Lincoln Journal Star
UNL's Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center will become a world's-first test site for a pair of New Holland T6.180 tractors that run exclusively on methane.
"The soldiers didn’t need directions. They followed the bodies."
- SAM MCKEWON Omaha World-Herald
It's a "new chapter" for Indiana football, writes Sam McKewon, but IU's chip-on-the-shoulder culture dares the Big Ten and Nebraska to catch up.
"Nebraska is one of only 26 states that allow voters – if they collect enough signatures to put something on the ballot – to directly pass laws and amendments ..."
- CON MARSHALL
The Chadron High boys’ golf team finished third at its home tournament on April 30 with a 362 score.
- CON MARSHALL
Hay Springs 8th grader Braxton Spicer was the pacesetter at the Middle School portion of the Best of the West Meet in Scottsbluff.
- CON MARSHALL
Mike Leatherdale's taken a long, sometimes winding path to track greatness at Chadron State.
- CON MARSHALL
Crawford finished with 112 points, 13 more than runner-up Morrill, while Hemingford was third in the girls’ standings with 70 points.
- CON MARSHALL
The record-setters were sophomore Addysyn Gruver in the long jump and junior Hannah Sprock in the shot put.
- CON MARSHALL
In the space of four days, Chadron High School sophomore Addisyn Gruver broke the long jump records belonging to two of the all-time outstanding athletes western Nebraska has ever produced.