Senators begin budget debate; Cavanaugh left off committee

Property tax, court fees, juvenile lawyer bills advance

At a virtual town hall hosted by the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, scientists from across Nebraska laid out their plans to study how pesticide and fungicide pollution by the AltEn ethanol plant may be impacting human health and the environment. The 10-year study wil...

The incoming head of the Food Bank of Lincoln, Michaella Kumke, says the pandemic has changed how the organization does its work and there are significant challenges ahead.

To say the last year has been a challenge for the Food Bank of Lincoln would be an understatement. Since March 1st of last year...

Eased unemployment benefits, school reporting, alcohol purchases advanced

About 500,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year. A Boston-based company is developing a shot that fights against the most common insect-borne disease in the country. Phase one human trials for Lyme PrEP are ongoing in Nebraska.

If you’ve recently gotten your COVID-19 vaccination and then get an e-mail or text asking you to take a survey afterward, beware, it could be a scam.

The FBI is reporting scammers are posing as the big drug companies, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson and sending out surveys to people who ha...

Latinos are far less likely to have gotten the COVID vaccine. A reluctance to get the shot grounded in language, culture and other factors piles onto the health care inequities that many Latinos already face. Harvest Public Media's David Condos reports that could leave many meatpacking communities a...

A group of researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health will begin a study to see if contamination from an ethanol plant in Mead, just west of Omaha, is affecting the air, water and even humans.

After four months on a ventilator, a cattle-rancher from Endicott in Southern Jefferson County can finally breathe again, with a new pair of lungs. Doctors at the University of Nebraska Medical Center performed the state’s first COVID double lung transplant last month.