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The Class of 2023 started its freshman year under the cloud of COVID. It ends its high school under bluer skies and greener risk dials.

It is time to sound the alarm at the Lancaster County Jail.

From 2011 to 2021, Nebraska’s prison population grew by 21% and created the nation’s most overcrowded corrections system. During the same time…

Nebraska had no demonstrable need for a voter ID law. Elections have always been safe, secure and accurately counted.

Nebraskans recognize the risks of brain drain -- losing smart young people and families to greener pastures. 

After a bruising campaign, Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird was sworn in for her second term Monday, along with three new members of the City Counci…

The Nebraska Legislature has been broken.

At long last, food trucks can now operate in downtown and Lincoln’s residential neighborhoods.

For years, Lincoln's been growing out, with housing developments and accompanying retail enlarging the city's footprint in all directions.

Earlier this month, Gov. Jim Pillen agreed to make a one-time stabilization payment to cover a funding gap for developmental disability servic…

In 1992, the Nebraska Environmental Trust was created to “conserve, enhance, and restore the natural, physical and biological environment” thr…

The Legislature is about to go all in on the proposed Perkins County Canal, spending $125 million in state funds to build a canal that would d…

Give to Lincoln Day -- May 24 -- may be two weeks out, but the lines, as they used to say, are open.

Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird was resoundingly reelected Tuesday, defeating former Sen. Suzanne Geist in a race that many expected to be far clos…

When new Superintendent Paul Gausman began his study of Lincoln Public Schools' practices, procedures and personnel last year, he found a cons…

Looking back a little more than a month from now, there will likely be no bigger surprise or national newsmaking event to come out of the Legi…

Cranes and construction are the outward signs of downtown Lincoln's ongoing evolution.

Exactly one third of Lincoln’s registered voters cast ballots in the April city primary election, advancing Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and Suz…

Sen. Steve Erdman of Bayard wants to change the legislative rules to stop an ongoing filibuster that has brought the Legislature to a crawl.

The White team lined up for the first scripted play Saturday in Nebraska’s spring game and ran a fullback dive out of the I formation, to the …

In November, Nebraskans approved amending the state constitution to require "valid photographic" ID to cast a vote.

Somewhere, under the negative ads and heated rhetoric, there was a truly substantive debate to be had about the future of Lincoln as we vote f…

On May 2, four Lincoln City Council members will be elected by district and two members of the Lincoln Airport Authority will be chosen by vot…

Nebraska didn’t see much population growth from 2021 to 2022, adding just 4,400 people. But what little growth there was occurred in Lancaster…