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Upcoming and ongoing Lincoln-area street closings.

A 65-year-old in Southeast Nebraska is reportedly the first flu-related death in the state this season, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The fire chief and labor union president agree: Lincoln's 249-member firefighter force is stretched thin.

The Oak Creek Recreational Trail will be closed Nov. 11-19, during firearm deer hunting season, according to officials with the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District.

Starting Sunday at 5 p.m., traffic on North 10th Street will be reduced to one lane between P and Q streets for concrete repair, according to the Lincoln Public Works and Utilities Department.

The force of the hurricane raked her coastal city like an atomic bomb — but what’s happened in Puerto Rico in the six weeks since then left Marisabel Carde-Sanchez searching for words.

It used to take three to four weeks to prepare the flower beds at Sunken Gardens for winter.

In just three months, a Lincoln woman has trapped 100 stray cats, given them medical care, spayed or neutered them and then set them free again.

Bob Esquivel was young.

Former Sen. Bob Kerrey will speak during the Veterans Day dedication of a monument to Nebraska service members killed since Sept. 11, 2001.