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Nebraska school districts will get a $59 million boost from the federal government to use next school year, a budget cushion that could help stave off an unknown number of job losses.
A 101-year-old woman who works for the Nebraska Legislature has been chosen as America's Outstanding Oldest Worker for 2010.
Nebraska government workers won't all be forced to stay home, unpaid, to help ease budget pressures that threaten to cause layoffs and reductions in state services.
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman on Friday ordered more than 11,000 state employees covered by union contracts to take two furlough days by the end of year, a move he says is needed "to avert as many layoffs as possible."
Nebraska tax revenue dove in June, falling 10 percent below official projections after May figures seemed to signal an economic rebound, according to a report issued Friday.
A scramble for oil in Colorado and Wyoming has spilled over into western Nebraska, and the state's public schools will benefit from the gush of money.
Nebraska officials have quieted concerns that millions of dollars worth of stimulus-funded road projects would be delayed, saying that construction on all the remaining projects in the state will be under way this spring and summer.
The federal government is conducting an investigation into whether the handful of large meatpackers that slaughter most of the nation's cattle are illegally or unfairly driving down cattle prices, according to an official representing independent beef producers nationwide.
It's been called a groundbreaking law, but a measure approved in Nebraska last week that changes the rationale for abortion bans probably won't go into effect anytime soon — if ever.
Nebraska lawmakers on Tuesday passed a groundbreaking bill banning abortions at 20 weeks based on assertions that fetuses feel pain then. Gov. Dave Heineman planned to sign it into law in the afternoon.
Nebraska could become the first state to require doctors to screen women for possible mental and physical problems before performing abortions under a bill that received final approval from the nonpartisan Legislature on Monday.
Nebraska lawmakers put the state treasurer's office on the chopping block Friday, giving voters the chance to eliminate the 155-year-old office in November.
Opposition to taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants appears to have trumped anti-abortion sentiments in Nebraska, likely ending an unusual collision of the two explosive political issues.
Nebraska lawmakers on Tuesday gave first-round approval to a plan to close a roughly $48 million gap in the current, two-year state budget while casting an eye toward what could be a massive budget hole next year.
Nebraska lawmakers want to put the state treasurer's office on the chopping block.
The founding fathers must have chuckled at the impossibility of the job when they etched it into the Constitution: Count every man, woman and child along every back road and big-city avenue in the entire country.
A union representing about 11,000 Nebraska state workers rejected Gov. Dave Heineman's request that they forgo pay raises next fiscal year, a move Heineman hinted could lead to layoffs.
Eighteen-year-olds still won't be full adults under Nebraska law, but will be closer to it under a bill making its way through the state Legislature.
Layoffs, fewer health care services for poor children and the elderly, dirtier state buildings and higher tuition at the University of Nebraska are some of the possible effects of budget cuts approved by lawmakers.
Amid looming budget problems, Gov. Dave Heineman tried to shift focus to Nebraska's financial health compared with other states' while acknowledging Thursday that the next 12 to 18 months would be a time of economic uncertainty.
In another sign of Nebraska's deepening budget woes, politicians are going after politicians as they try to save money.
Now the only state that doesn't allow information to be scanned from drivers' licenses, Nebraska may soon let store clerks do more than just look at them when selling alcohol, tobacco and lottery tickets.
Nebraska's liquor cops want to wipe a 70-year-old ban against mixing booze and beer off the books, saying the original intent of the law that makes drinks like boilermakers illegal disappeared long ago.
A dismal revenue report is creating fresh concerns over Nebraska's state budget and the overall economy, just two months after lawmakers slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in planned spending.
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning is taking his fight against new video games that offer cash pay-outs to the state Legislature, a move that distributors of a popular new barroom game called a continuation of his "witch hunt."
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