Gloria Sarmiento scrolls through her phone, pulling up photos of injured meatpacking workers as we head out of Lincoln — her Nebraska Appleseed colleague Magdalena "Maggie" Cazarez driving us north.
Jim Frear of Columbus recently retired from Loup Power District after 29 years of service.
For the better part of two decades, Tim Hersh had been looking for a business venture that could include the entire family.
Two Southeast Nebraska banks have agreed to buy a troubled bank in a three-way merger.
Google has announced plans to award $1 million to nonprofits in Nebraska that come up with ideas to help grow the state's economy.
The percentage of people behind on their mortgages hit two-decade lows across much of the country in August, but not in Nebraska.
A group of Saline County residents has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop construction of a wind farm near Milligan.
Adam Kauffman, a native of Gretna, graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2017, where he served as research editor for the Nebraska Law Review. While in law school, Adam clerked for the Nebraska Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Division as the Janet D. Steiger…
A wind farm being built in Antelope and Wheeler counties in northeast Nebraska will sell power to AT&T once it's up and running.
People who buy individual health insurance already have an additional Affordable Care Act-compliant option this year, with the entry of Bright Health into Nebraska.
He was buying a home at Johnson Lake, so of course he wanted one on the water.
John Czarnick of Genoa has retired from Loup Power District after 45 years of service to Loup Power District.
Great Plains State Bank is excited to announce the hiring of Heather Giffrow, Leslie Larson and Kate Paprocki.
Nebraska is continuing to grow its renewable energy footprint, particularly when it comes to wind and solar.
For the second time in less than a decade, a small Nebraska bank has agreed to a consent order with federal regulators.
The Lincoln Airport will likely miss out on a chance to add a new air carrier and at least one new destination because it cannot provide the financial incentive the airline wants.
My colleague Chris Dunker wrote an excellent data-driven story earlier this month looking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's recruitment of out-of-state students.
The spotlight was on workforce development, with a special emphasis on attracting young people to the state, during a Lincoln Chamber of Commerce breakfast gathering Wednesday that peered ahead to next year's session of the Legislature.
Nebraska Lt. Gov. Mike Foley made a stop Tuesday in Schuyler to speak on economic and job issues in the state, as well as to celebrate the grand opening of a new apartment complex.
Nebraskans who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace exchange are in for a big break next year.
The 400,000-square-foot complex, located on the outskirts of Fremont, began processing chickens Sept. 9 and has slowly been scaling up operations.
It's not every day Nebraska travels overseas to play a football game. So interest is likely to be high among Husker fans for the game against Illinois that will be played in Dublin, Ireland, to open the 2021 season.
Customers made a partial return to the Chick-fil-A in south Lincoln on Thursday, two days after a man who caused a disturbance and drove his pickup into the restaurant was killed in an officer-involved shooting.
Lincoln has Christmas in July. Now David City will have Christmas in October.
The Trump administration announced Friday it plans to implement new rules that will increase demand for ethanol, reversing a decline caused by exemptions given to oil refineries.
At first glance, Centro Hispano’s September networking breakfast held inside the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce office may have seemed just like many of the others the organization hosts.
A Crete company that makes ingredients for pet food has been fined $100,000 for violations of the Clean Water Act.
Dish Network subscribers could find themselves without access to some Nebraska sports coverage for the foreseeable future.
The Columbus Community Hospital Foundation wants to help community members protect their loved ones now and in the future.
Jim Hellbusch says the story of Duo Lift Manufacturing doesn't actually start with his father opening the business in 1943, but with his great-great-grandfather coming in 1856 to a little patch of land in northeast Nebraska near the transcontinental railroad still owned by the Pawnee Indian Tribe.
Lincoln and Nebraska as a whole have typically done a good job, at least compared with the region, in attracting venture capital.
Sen. Ben Sasse, the highest-profile hawker of Runzas in Nebraska and Washington, D.C., won't be slinging the hot beef and cabbage sandwiches at Saturday's Husker game against Northern Illinois.
A transgender woman lost her job Wednesday after telling an employee of the Nebraska Family Alliance she was no longer welcome at a Lincoln coffee shop.
The construction labor crunch appears to be getting worse in Nebraska.
The Columbus Fraternal Order of Eagles #1834 has a history that dates back to 1909 and has been an integral part of the development and tradition of the city. But, in the early part of this year, things weren’t looking too good.
The Nebraska banking industry is continuing to sound like a broken record -- as in broken profit record.
Workers in meat-processing plants in Nebraska and across the country continue to suffer high rates of occupational injury and illness at a time when the Trump administration is authorizing higher production line speeds and reducing government oversight, according to a study released Wednesday.
Medica, which has been the only company offering Affordable Care Act-compliant health insurance in Nebraska for the past two years, is planning to expand its presence in the state in other coverage areas.
When you envision a set of hands, whose do you see? Your father’s? A surgeon’s? Maybe a band teacher orchestrating her students?
The tens of thousands of Nebraskans who get their health insurance through the federal marketplace exchange may get some cost relief.
Valmont Industries in Columbus hosted corporate employees and local business leaders for an open house Friday that showcased a brand-new production facility where utility poles are constructed.
More than 9,000 homes and businesses in Nebraska will get access to affordable broadband internet thanks to a $124.5 million grant from the Federal Communications Commission.
Columbus Community Hospital (CCH) has announced the addition of the Columbus Psychiatry Clinic.
