Nebraska Update

Small, rural towns have been shrinking for decades. While some seem resigned to decline, others hang their hopes on dramatic turnarounds that rarely come. But there are researchers who have embraced another way that may help towns get better even as they shed population.

Congress is debating the 2018 farm bill, which will set rules for everything from research budgets to hunger programs. It will also decide how much the government will spend on incentives for farmers to practice conservation on their land.

He’s known for his aggressive, almost angry paintings, work that includes familiar symbols and bright colors. For Matt Sesow, art has become therapy, an outlet for an accident that happened more than 40 years ago along a grassy runway near Lincoln. The mishap changed his life, but also opened up a w...

Surprising dynamics underlie Ebke-Brandt legislative race

Nebraska is fighting human trafficking on a lot of fronts. Awareness, law enforcement, legislation, social services. In today’s NET News Signature Story, Mike Tobias updates these efforts, and looks at what’s working and what’s still needed.

In rural America there’s a shortage of veterinarians. The pay is low, the hours long and fewer of these professionals want to live where there are more cows than people. But a lack of vets leaves our food supply vulnerable to devastating outbreaks.

n Carter Lake, Iowa The Ponca Tribe of Nebraskais preparing the site for construction and finalizing agreements to reimburse the city for revenues lost by making the land tribal territory.

Bulldozers preparing the land even as an effort by Iowa and Nebraska to block the casino is under review by a f...

A 148-year-old artifact connected to a popular piece of classical music has been hiding out for a couple decades in a safe deposit box in Lincoln, Nebraska, until this year. As Genevieve Randall reports in today’s NET News Signature Story, the story of how it got there is complicated and includes a...

Over the years, this central Nebraska town has funded a Community Hall, after the original one burned; a skilled nursing facility on the brink of closure; and soon, they will be asked to fund an assisted living wing. At a town hall meeting eight years ago, the citizens donated enough money to keep 5...

English Language Learners in public schools around the country graduate at much lower rates than all other students. NPR recently came to that conclusion in a review of state by state data from the US Department of Education. NET’s Brandon McDermott looks at graduation rates and ways educators aroun...