A dozen years after last minimum wage hike, is $15 new norm?
WASHINGTON — The signs and banners are dotted along suburban commercial strips and hanging in shop windows and restaurants, evidence of a new desperation...
Carbon-capture pipelines offer climate aid; activists wary
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Two companies seeking to build thousands of miles of pipeline across the Midwest are promising the effort will aid rather...
States scale back virus reporting just as cases surge
OMAHA, Neb. — Several states scaled back their reporting of COVID-19 statistics this month just as cases across the country started to skyrocket, depriving...
Nebraska patrol officials defend mission to Mexican border
LINCOLN, Neb. — Officials from the Nebraska State Patrol defended their state-funded mission to the U.S.-Mexican border on Thursday, arguing that they were answering...
Union Pacific Q2 profit jumps 59% as volume grows 22%
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific's second-quarter profit jumped 59% as the railroad hauled 22% more cargo than a year ago when shipments fell to...
Nebraska agreed to no reimbursement for troopers in Texas
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska agreed not to seek reimbursement from Texas for the state patrol troopers that it sent down to the U.S.-Mexican border...
‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’ burdens busy US hospitals
The COVID-19 comeback across the U.S. is putting pressure on hospitals at a time when some of them are busy just trying to catch...
US regulators criticize Buffett’s failed $1.3B pipeline deal
OMAHA, Neb. — Federal regulators say Berkshire Hathaway's $1.3 billion deal to buy a natural gas pipeline from Dominion Energy that fell apart this...
Ted Turner to give land to nonprofit but keep paying taxes
LINCOLN, Neb. — Media mogul and billionaire bison rancher Ted Turner is donating an 80,000-acre ranch he owns in western Nebraska to his own...
Nebraska COVID-19 cases jump to 456 last week
OMAHA, Neb. — The number of COVID-19 cases reported in Nebraska jumped last week, but the rate of new cases remained below the national...