Nebraska Update

Lincoln voters will decide Tuesday whether to continue a quarter-cent sales tax to pay for street projects. The tax was originally approved in 2019 by a vote of 50.7% to 49.4% and is scheduled to end on September 30.

Hospitals’ access to a federal drug discount program will be strengthened under a bill passed in the Nebraska Legislature Thursday. The 340B program requires drug companies to provide discounts to certain hospitals in exchange for their participation in Medicare and Medicaid. In recent years, some drug companies have placed data reporting requirements on hospitals and restricted which pharmacies they can use to distribute the discounted drugs. A bill from Sen. Brian Hardin prohibits these restrictions.

The future of brand inspections and funding for the University of Nebraska were among subjects considered by the Nebraska Legislature Wednesday.

A Nebraska official says Colorado landowners seem uninterested in negotiations over land for the proposed Perkins County Canal.

It’s been more than five years since the World Health Organization identified the virus known as COVID-19 as a pandemic. But there are still many unknowns about Post-COVID, or Long COVID. Here's how the longer-lasting illness looks in the state.

The Nebraska Legislature voted first round approval Tuesday to a measure allowing a lower minimum wage for young workers.

The USDA's Rural Development agency has provided billions of dollars each year to small towns, farmers and businesses. Now staffing upheaval and budget cuts brought on by the Trump administration may be eating into the agency’s effectiveness.

Nebraska lawmakers gave first-round approval Monday to a ban on making or selling lab-grown meat in the state.

A continuing resolution Congress passed to keep the government from shutting down also dried up funding for several water projects in Nebraska. That includes more than $8 million for a pipeline connecting the Santee Sioux Reservation in northeast Nebraska with clean drinking water – something the tribe hasn’t had in nearly 6 years. Tribal vice chairman Kameron Runnels says the setback is frustrating, but he has faith that the project will eventually be funded.

An ornithologist spent four decades tracking 40,000 bird deaths at a single building. His records paved the way to better scientific and public understanding.