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A state law passed last year requires some local governments, including counties and school districts, to notify property owners when tax collections would increase above a certain threshold.
Martha Stoddard
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Martha Stoddard keeps legislators honest from The World-Herald's Lincoln bureau, where she covers news from the State Capitol. Follow her on Twitter @StoddardOWH. Phone: 402-670-2402
Omaha native and human rights activist Malcolm X survived the first cut Friday to remain in the running for the Nebraska Hall of Fame.
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The ACLU of Nebraska has gone to federal court seeking the release of information on the alleged mistreatment of workers rounded up during a 2018 immigration raid in Nebraska.
Gov. Pete Ricketts was in Kuwait to see a Kearney-based military police detachment of the Nebraska Army Guard take over from a Scottsbluff-based Guard team providing security at a U.S. Army base.
Federal pandemic relief funds delivered Nebraska child care providers a $98 million lifeline over the last nine months, according to state officials.
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Under legislation that went into effect earlier this month, families of first responders who die in the line of duty can receive a one-time $250,000 death benefit.
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Nebraska's governor and attorney general have gone on the attack against a federal policy aimed at preventing discrimination in school lunch programs based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
An advocacy group has dropped its three-year-old lawsuit challenging Nebraska's use of private contractors to oversee Omaha-area child welfare cases.
Nebraska legislative candidates spent $2.19 million into their primary election campaigns. That's twice as much as colleagues did a decade earlier.
Attorney General Doug Peterson will not file criminal charges against former State Sen. Mike Groene over photographs of a female staffer found on his laptop.