Seeing federal courts slash away at the Voting Rights Act, some states are seeking to resurrect fallen protections for non-white voters with their own versions of the landmark law passed during the ...

With the federal law eroded by court decisions, about a half-dozen states want to enshrine protections for non-white voters. But it’s a tough sell even in Democratic states.

A federal judge says Friday he will “get to the bottom” of whether President Donald Trump’s administration defied his order ...

President Donald Trump announced Friday that Boeing will build the Air Force’s future fighter jets, which the Pentagon says ...

A portion of the University of South Dakota campus was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places.

President Donald Trump began sketching a road map Friday for dismantling the Education Department, with other agencies taking ...

Nearly 160 years ago, right around the time North Platte itself was established, R.E. Rowland erected a small, one-room cabin, not knowing the history it would one day house within ...

LINCOLN — Don Wesely, a longtime state lawmaker from Lincoln who also served a term as the city's mayor, died unexpectedly ...

Nebraska’s agricultural land values decreased by 2% in the past year, with an average value of $3,935 per acre as of Feb. 1, ...

March 17, 1900: Wednesday night Mr. Miller, at the Tuscarora Stage Co.’s barn in Elko, was awakened by a loud commotion among his chickens. Upon investigation he found a racoon after his chickens. He ...