Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/28/2025 - 12:00am
The Agriculture Department will reopen about 2,100 county offices all across the country Thursday despite the ongoing government shutdown to help farmers and ranchers get access to $3 billion of aid from existing programs.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/28/2025 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown now in its fourth week likely means there won't be an inflation report next month for the first time in more than seven decades, the White House said Friday, leaving Wall Street and the Federal Reserve without crucial information about consumer prices.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/21/2025 - 12:00am
Livia Ziskey, a college student majoring in journalism, remembers the local newspaper being delivered when she was growing up in Omaha. Her father still takes the Omaha World-Herald, although he’ll be getting one fewer edition starting in early November, when the World-Herald and other daily newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises will stop printing on Mondays.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/21/2025 - 12:00am
I love a good deal – who doesn’t? For example, I’ve lost track of how many people I’ve recently told about my new flat top grill I just got from Sam’s Club. It’s a wannabe Blackstone, but the store’s own Member’s Mark brand. Where you could easily spend upwards of $300 on a “real” one, mine usually runs $250. Not much of a savings, except that it was on sale for $80 off so I spent a mere $170! Can you believe it? I had it assembled and seasoned with oil the day I brought it home.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/21/2025 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. The nation's leadership called the new rules “common sense” to help regulate a “very disruptive” press.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/21/2025 - 12:00am
In Kentucky, patients drive up to two hours to see Dr. Manikya Kuriti, one of the few endocrinologists who serve the rural communities surrounding Louisville.
Kuriti’s husband, a pulmonologist, drives from Louisville to small hospitals an hour south and north, in Indiana, to help small teams treat critically ill patients.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/21/2025 - 12:00am
At first glance, they look like raises.
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a music professor’s salary jumped $13,000 in the past decade. A University of Nebraska at Kearney political science professor’s grew by $15,000. A University of Nebraska at Omaha social work professor got a $19,000 bump.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/14/2025 - 12:00am
With hotter temperatures come more heat-related workplace injuries — about 28,000 injuries each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Environmental Health.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/14/2025 - 12:00am
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — When Rob Coverdale started his job in 2023 as superintendent of the K-12 Crow Creek Tribal School in South Dakota, there were 15 unfilled teaching positions.
Within nine months, he had filled those vacancies with Filipino teachers, the majority of whom arrived on the H-1B, a visa for skilled workers in specialty occupations.