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At a June 5 meeting, the City Council declared some blocks between downtown and the Papillion Creek blighted and substandard and created a limited community redevelopment authority. The move allows the city to offer tax-increment financing, or TIF, a method…

Services have been set for A.B. “Buddy” Hogan, a former Omahan who spent his life working for social justice.

When Ruth Schiller died May 5 at age 82, Robert Schiller couldn’t go on.

The embattled director of the Environmental Protection Agency was in Nebraska on Thursday to talk about the administration’s new Waters of the United States rule.

In a written response to questions raised by health care providers, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that there is no reporting requirement when Title X clinics refer women to a hospital emergency room for complications…

Attorneys Jeff Pickens, Sarah Newell and Todd Lancaster of the Nebraska Commission on Public Advocacy say the pressure placed on Garcia to become a doctor, along with his mental illnesses, should spare him the death penalty.

State Sen. Mike Groene of North Platte plans to unveil the informal group at a press conference Friday. He said the group will focus on state school aid funding and how the funding formula can be used to ease property…

A judge has scheduled a July 2 hearing for Joshua Keadle to enter a plea to a murder charge in the case of a Peru State College student who went missing in 2010.

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., will host his first Sarpy County town hall on June 23 from 9 to 10 a.m.

The 2016 law required independent candidates to collect about 120,000 petition signatures — equal to 10 percent of the state’s registered voters — to get on the ballot.