Nebraska Update

Plan for more social workers in schools stalls in Legislature

Medicaid petition drive launched; Larson charge Bold Nebraska got Russian money denied

The space law moot court competitions provide law students the chance to grapple with complex legal matters involving governance of outer space.

Legislation to head off tax increase advances

Family planning funds, public power information spark concerns

150 years ago this year, the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska had just been born, a year after Nebraska had become a state. The Union Pacific Railroad had also started its steady march west. A forward-thinking Bishop from Chicago used the railroad to spread the gospel and set up a string of small churc...

Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are designing a smart bandage that could eventually heal chronic wounds caused by diabetes and help fight against injuries that occur on the battlefield. NET News' Brandon McDermott sits down with Ali Tamayol a lead researcher for the project at UN...

Internet sales tax one step closer

U.S. farmers send more than 170 million hogs to market each year. That’s a lot of ham and bacon. To breed for that amount of pork, farmers rely on artificial insemination. It’s an international industry based in biology… and groceries.

The reach of this winter’s drought is even worse than in 2012, a year that brought the worst drought in the U.S. since the Dust Bowl and cost cost farmers, ranchers and governments an estimated $30 billion.