Omaha Children’s Museum has started a petition to make the Salt Creek tiger beetle the Nebraska State insect. It would replace the honeybee, which is not native to the state.

Lancaster County courts clear warrants to benefit those in the system and the courts themselves

More than a thousand acres of land burned at the Williams Gap Wildlife Management Area in Banner County while the Aristocrat Fire south of Chadron burned 400 acres. The hunting season and wildlife will be temporarily affected because of the fires.

The Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in quarantines, businesses shut down and more than 190,000 Nebraskans filed for unemployment benefits. It’s affected everyone across the state including non-profits who rely on donations from the public to help keep their books in the black.

Ricketts clarifies student quarantine policy

During the summer, schools and other community sites that offer children free meals saw soaring demand. Now school’s in session, and this term, at least, meals remain free for all kids. Harvest Public Media’s Amy Mayer reports that’s because with tens of millions of children relying on school meals,...

A movie filmed in Nebraska during quarantine earlier this year will premiere at the World Theatre in Kearney this weekend. The romantic comedy #MyCorona is believed to be the first movie directed remotely over FaceTime.

On Tuesday evening, noted presidential historian and best-selling author Doris Kearns Goodwin will deliver the 25th annual Governor’s Lecture in the Humanities. Because of the pandemic, she’ll speak virtually from her home in Massachusetts, with her comments shaped around her recent book, “Leadershi...

Home schooling is nothing new, but because of the pandemic, families who’ve never considered it before are now. The Nebraska Department of Education has received more than 13,000 fillings this school year for homeschool students, a 56 percent increase compared to last year.

COVID-19 has made it more difficult for farmers to sell produce — from farmers markets to restaurants, leaving food in the field. Harvest Public Media’s Seth Bodine reports on how one group in Oklahoma is helping farmers get excess food off the farm and to those who need it most.