Profiles
When my Editor came to me and asked if I wanted to get paid to head to 36th and V Street to write about street tacos, I did my very best to hide my enthusiasm and remain as professional as possible...
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...
Today’s News
LINCOLN — All of Nebraska’s “good life” districts appear to be in a precarious spot — not just the embattled one in Gretna — as Gov. Jim Pillen’s proposed budget seeks to deny $5 million a year set...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, followed by Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio, arrives before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP Photo)
Among 70 million Facebook groups and pages, scores of them have something to do with Nebraska: Nebraska Bohemians, Nebraska History, Nebraska Girl Gang, I Grew Up in Nebraska, Mamas of Nebraska and...
This Storm-Battered Town Voted For Trump. He Has Vowed To Overturn The Law That Could Fix Its Homes.
This Storm-Battered Town Voted for Trump. He Has Vowed to Overturn the Law That Could Fix Its Homes.
by Sharon Lerner, photography by Annie Flanagan for ProPublica
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-...
When Dakota Cherney, Paige Hansen and TK Hergott left Thayer County for college, they didn’t intend returning anytime soon to that rural southeast Nebraska borderland. Yet “The Thayer County Three,”...
Ernest Kobs knows his family history.
He knows his great-grandparents both emigrated from Germany, married in 1870 and, in 1874, bought and then worked a farm in northwest Douglas County. He knows...
This Week's News
01/23/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — All of Nebraska’s “good life” districts appear to be in a precarious spot — not just the embattled one in Gretna — as Gov. Jim Pillen’s proposed budget seeks to deny $5 million a year set aside for the new state incentive that had been...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, followed by Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio, arrives before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP Photo)
01/23/2025 - 6:00am
Among 70 million Facebook groups and pages, scores of them have something to do with Nebraska: Nebraska Bohemians, Nebraska History, Nebraska Girl Gang, I Grew Up in Nebraska, Mamas of Nebraska and many more, including Unicameral Update via the...
This Storm-Battered Town Voted For Trump. He Has Vowed To Overturn The Law That Could Fix Its Homes.
01/23/2025 - 5:00am
This Storm-Battered Town Voted for Trump. He Has Vowed to Overturn the Law That Could Fix Its Homes.
by Sharon Lerner, photography by Annie Flanagan for ProPublica
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big...
01/23/2025 - 4:00am
When Dakota Cherney, Paige Hansen and TK Hergott left Thayer County for college, they didn’t intend returning anytime soon to that rural southeast Nebraska borderland. Yet “The Thayer County Three,” as they’ve become known in Nebraska economic...
01/22/2025 - 7:00am
Ernest Kobs knows his family history.
He knows his great-grandparents both emigrated from Germany, married in 1870 and, in 1874, bought and then worked a farm in northwest Douglas County. He knows they’re both buried on the land, but pinpointing...
Second grade student Kaign Groce, 7, reads a book Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006, during a literacy class at the John Fenwick Elementary School in Salem, N.J. (Jose F. Moreno / AP Photo)
01/22/2025 - 6:00am
You can hardly make it through one quick scan of the news or scroll through social media without finding a new discussion about artificial intelligence (AI). The same holds true within education discourse.
According to a 2023 Pew Research Center...
01/22/2025 - 5:00am
Dinner service at the Terraces at Park Marino in Pasadena, California, was about half over, and residents were gathering in the lobby for the night’s movie feature: “Scent of a Woman."
Sharon Tanner and Carlene Sutherland, both members of the...
01/22/2025 - 4:00am
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — A nurse who fled Cuba as part of the Caribbean nation’s largest exodus in more than six decades needed a place to stay in Mexico as she waited to legally enter the U.S. using a government app. A woman who had lived her whole...
President Jimmy Carter reaches to shake hands with 3 ½ year-old Karima Ridglev of Boston who was attending the signing of the bills by the president at the White House in Washington on Oct. 10, 1980. The president signed the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site Bill and the Boston African National Historic Site Bill. (Barry Thumma / AP Photo)
01/22/2025 - 3:00am
Former US president Jimmy Carter, who had been frail for some time, has died at the age of 100.
His opposition to racism and his support for human rights are legendary, made more compelling by his life-long commitment to live among rural Georgians...
A Target employee returns shopping carts from the parking lot, in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Target Corp. says it’s permanently increasing starting hourly wages for its workers to $15. (Nati Harnik / AP Photo)
01/21/2025 - 5:00am
The minimum wage will increase in nearly half the states this year even as the federal wage floor remains stuck at $7.25 per hour.
In many states, the minimum wage is automatically adjusted upward as inflation rises. But voters in several states,...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is one of many groups working on linking brains to computers, efforts aimed at helping treat brain disorders, overcoming brain injuries and other applications. (Patrick Pleul / AP Photo)
01/21/2025 - 4:00am
Elon Musk said a third person has received an implant from his brain-computer interface company Neuralink, one of many groups working to connect the nervous system to machines.
“We've got ... three humans with Neuralinks and all are working well,”...
01/20/2025 - 7:00am
On election night 2024, Omaha-area Democrats were on top — just not the way they had expected.
For the fifth time in a row they narrowly lost to Republican Congressman Don Bacon. And this time, the Democrats set a record they’d rather not hold....
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of State, appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)
01/20/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday painted a dark vision of the consequences of America's “unbalanced relationship” with China, echoing President-elect Donald Trump's anti-globalist rhetoric as he vies to be confirmed as his...
01/20/2025 - 5:00am
The Second Trump White House Could Drastically Reshape Infectious Disease Research. Here’s What’s at Stake.
by Anna Maria Barry-Jester
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State Sen. Rita Sanders of Bellevue speaks at a news conference Monday during which Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, Attorney General Mike Hilgers and lawmakers took aim at social media and school-hours cell phone use by Nebraska youths. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
01/17/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraskans under age 18 would need parental permission before opening a social media account under new legislation to be considered this year by state lawmakers.
The measure, to be introduced by State Sen. Tanya Storer of Whitman, was...
The Nebraska State Capitol’s west entrance. (Paul Hammel / Nebraska Examiner)
01/17/2025 - 6:00am
It’s important for our leaders to be truthful and not speak half-truths to burnish their image, particularly when it comes to the financial stability of the state, which affects every Nebraskan.
Accountability is not just a virtue — it’s a...
01/17/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state by inserting Bible references into reading lessons and requiring teachers to...
01/17/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers will seek to define “male” and “female” in state law, broadening a past effort focused on sex-based restrictions for K-12 school bathrooms and sports teams to colleges and all areas of state government.
Legislative Bill...
Pez candy, which contains red dye no. 3, is on display at a store in Lafayette, Calif., March 24, 2023. (Haven Daley / AP Photo)
01/17/2025 - 3:00am
U.S. regulators on Wednesday banned the dye called Red 3 from the nation’s food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk.
Food and Drug Administration officials granted a 2022 petition filed by two...
01/17/2025 - 2:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s K-12 schools would be required to teach students from elementary to high schools about human development under a new bill proposed Tuesday in the Legislature.
Legislative Bill 213, from State Sen. Rick Holdcroft of Bellevue, was...
