The state of Nebraska has approved $3 million in grants to help communities recover from flooding in the spring and rebuild housing.

A petition drive for a measure that seeks to lower Nebraska property taxes by sharply cutting state revenue is gaining steam and donations despite concerns from some groups that it would force lawmakers to raise other...

The biocontainment unit that was used to treat several people with the Ebola virus in 2014 will be the focus of the next Omaha Science Cafe.

Officials in southeastern Nebraska say deputies seized thousands of marijuana vape pens and other drugs valued at nearly $2 million that were found in a parked pickup truck.

Federal prosecutors for Nebraska have announced prison terms for two Omaha men convicted in separate child pornography cases.

An effort to more tightly regulate the use of jailhouse informants is gaining momentum across the country in the wake of exonerations of people wrongly convicted of crimes.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is holding workshops to prepare and certify youth fishing instructors in Lincoln and North Platte this fall.

A federal appeals court in New York has revived a lawsuit alleging Fox News exploited the killing of a Democratic National Committee employee.

Advocates for low-income families and children have announced a petition drive for a Nebraska ballot measure to cap the interest payday lenders can charge at 36% annually.

Nebraska state government collected more tax revenue than expected in August.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of an Omaha man sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of another man.

Two people charged in the slaying of a man at a park near Fairbury in southeast Nebraska have entered pleas.

The state is studying the possibility of a bus service linking Grand Island, Hastings and Kearney in south-central Nebraska.

A Colorado resident has been imprisoned for sexually assaulting one of his art students in western Nebraska.

A Norfolk man has been given 30 months in prison for the crash death of a passenger in his vehicle.

Nebraska prison officials say a 55-year-old inmate serving life for murder has died in a Lincoln prison while being treated for a medical condition.