New federal court rulings are narrowing the Biden administration’s enforcement of a rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination and allowing critics to limit it even further school by school.

Complex and confusing taxation systems make it easier for wind’s opponents, some citing misinformation, to say that wind has fallen short of its promises.

An Associated Press analysis of county tax data across three states — Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska — found wind companies rank among the biggest taxpayers in many rural communities, with their total tax bills at times outstripping that of large farms, power plants and other major businesses.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has issued a long-awaited proclamation to call a special legislative session to address soaring property taxes.

A former University of Florida president will take back the role on an interim basis following ex-U.S. Ben Sasse's unexpected announcement last week that he was stepping down after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy.

Rail unions say that inspections continue to be rushed and a new federal study reinforces that concern with railroads routinely allowing less than two minutes per car for inspections.

The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $4.3 billion in grants to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution.

Voters nationwide reacted with relief and hope to news that President Joe Biden would drop his reelection bid.

It seemed like a dream come true when officials in the Nebraska city of York got a federal grant to build a hiking and biking trail.

University of Florida president Ben Sasse has announced that he will leave his position of nearly two years to focus on taking care of his family after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has announced a broad tax plan for an upcoming special legislative session billed to cut property taxes in half.

A new juvenile detention center in downtown Omaha features comfortable rooms, common spaces with flat-screen TVs and orderly classrooms.

Thousands of Nebraskans with felony convictions could be denied voting rights under attorney general's opinion.

Thousands of Nebraskans with felony convictions could be denied voting rights under an opinion from the state attorney general released Wednesday.

Public records in Nebraska show that nearly a third of Section 8 vouchers expire each year in Lincoln before people are able to secure housing.

Public school advocates believe they will have enough signatures to ask Nebraska voters in November to repeal a private school tuition funding law.

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska will soon get back about 1,600 acres of land the federal government took more than 50 years ago and never developed.

A Nebraska state employees union is considering an appeal after seeing its challenge to Gov. Jim Pillen's return-to-office order dismissed.

A federal judge in Kansas has refused to block the nationwide enforcement of a Biden administration rule requiring firearms dealers to do background checks of buyers at gun shows and other places outside brick-and-mortar stores.

Backers of an Arizona abortion rights ballot initiative have sued a GOP-led legislative committee that seeks to include language on material for voters referring to a fetus as “an unborn human being.”.

A 5-year-old Nebraska boy in foster care died after being left for several hours inside a hot SUV.

Voters in five states will decide referendums on abortion rights this year, with potentially more to come.

Organizers of an effort to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban face a deadline to submit enough signatures to try to get their proposal before voters in November.

Competing petitions on abortion have enough signatures to make Nebraska's November ballot, organizers say.

A petition to protect abortion rights in Nebraska has enough signatures to get on the ballot, organizers say.

Floodwaters in rural Minnesota carved a path around a century old dam early last week, causing severe erosion to a riverbank.

Pro-choice advocates are set to deliver about 800,000 petition signatures Wednesday in hopes of getting the Arizona abortion rights issue on the November general election ballot.

Rushing waters from the Blue Earth River have already left a trail of debris and destruction on the edges of a southern Minnesota dam that partially failed last week.

Organizers of competing petition efforts seeking to squelch or expand abortion access in Nebraska are looking to gather enough signatures before this week’s deadline to make the November ballot.

Progressive groups in Arkansas have decided to not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a lower court's ruling that civil rights groups say erodes the Voting Rights Act.

Authorities are not ruling out racist motives as they investigate why a white Nebraska man shot and wounded seven neighbors who were Guatemalan immigrants.

A Nebraska father who fatally shot his 10-year-old son on Thanksgiving while investigating what he thought was car theft has pleaded no contest to manslaughter.

A federal class-action lawsuit alleges the Omaha Housing Authority continuously violated the legal rights of low-income tenants over the last seven years.

Investor Warren Buffett has announced another $5.3 billion in charitable gifts Friday.

A University of Nebraska regent has proposed a way for football-crazy Cornhusker fans to carry their fandom into the afterlife.

Two Nebraska-born ice cream obsessives who grew up on Zesto soft serve are working to broaden a loose network of restaurants that bear the same name but operate mostly independently.

As floodwaters continue to ravage the Midwest, a Minnesota family that watched their home collapse into a swollen river near an at risk dam is vowing to reopen their nearby store.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen says he'll call lawmakers back for a special session next month to address property tax relief.

Many Midwestern homeowners hit by bad flooding this week do not have flood insurance.

The Episcopal Church — at its General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky — is about to elect a new leader to replace Bishop Michael Curry.

The devastation from floodwaters was coming into focus for residents and officials near McCook Lake in North Sioux City, South Dakota, as water receded after days of heavy rains around the Midwest.

A Minnesota dam is still intact after floodwaters overcame parts of the structure and prompted officials to prepare for a potential collapse.

Iowa regulators have approved a controversial carbon dioxide pipeline for transporting emissions of the climate-warming greenhouse gas for storage underground.

More rain storms are possible in parts of the deluged Midwest, where flooding after days of heavy rains has killed at least two people, sent a river surging around a dam and forced evacuations and rescues.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is one of Donald Trump’s most visible and vocal backers, sprinting around the country to drum up support for the ex-president’s comeback bid while auditioning to be his running mate.

Heavy rains have caused record-setting flooding in parts of Iowa and South Dakota.

A new federal rule aims to ensure first responders can find out what hazardous chemicals are on a train after a derailment, so they can respond appropriately.

Millions of Americans sweated through a scorching weekend as temperatures soared across the U.S., while residents were rescued from floodwaters that forced evacuations across the Midwest.

A year after Nebraska lawmakers approved a 12-week abortion ban, the Flatwater Free Press spoke with 11 doctors specializing in pregnancy and childbirth-related fields to see if it has affected their work.

Witnesses say they heard an Ohio man demand the keys to a Jeep that was being towed behind a Missouri couple’s RV before he brutally stabbed them both and killed the man at an Interstate 80 rest area.

Authorities say an attempted robbery at a highway rest area in eastern Nebraska left a 72-year-old man dead and a 71-year-old woman critically injured in a knife attack.

Much of the Midwest and the Northeast is broiling — or set to broil — in extreme summer heat this week.

Farming and biofuels organizations are hopeful that ethanol could be used to power passenger jets, but making that dream a reality hasn’t been easy.

Heat and cold extremes are expected in the U.S. Extreme weather that ranged from triple digit temperatures in the Southwest to unseasonable cold in the Pacific Northwest has been forecast over the U.S. into the early part of the week.

Extreme weather that ranged from triple digit temperatures in the Southwest to unseasonable cold in the Pacific Northwest was forecast over the U.S. into the early week.

Anti-abortion groups and their Republican allies in state governments are using a range of strategies to counter proposed ballot initiatives that are intended to protect reproductive rights or prevent voters from having a say in the fall.

The issue of abortion will be before voters in at least four states this year, and possibly more.

Much of the U.S. is bracing for extreme weather - especially high temperatures — this weekend and into next week.

Attorneys general across the U.S. have a new fight on their hands: protecting Americans from unproven and expensive stem cell treatments that salespeople claim can cure almost anything.