Four recent catastrophic building collapses and a near miss are raising concerns about the state of America’s aging buildings and questions about who, if anyone, is checking their safety.

LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen laid out an ambitious goal Monday of reducing local property taxes by 40% while providing few details on how the state would do that.

What does it mean for gardeners that the Pantone Institute has declared "Peach Fuzz" to be the color of the year for 2024? A plethora of peachy plants at the nursery, that's what. The Pantone Color Institute has been governing worldwide color trends since 2000. Its color-of-the-year selections lead designers of clothing, decor, paints and more to come up with items in those trendy tones.

Coal ash, what’s left over after coal is burned to generate electricity, is one of the largest waste streams in the U.S., with hundreds of millions of tons of it lying in hundreds of sites across the country.