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A brand-new summer celebration will be lighting up southeast Nebraska this weekend. The inaugural Firefly Festival will take place Saturday in downtown Bennet and will feature food, games, and a headline performance by Jadyn Olesen and AM/FM. Olesen was a recent finalist on NBC’s The Voice. “We’re thrilled to...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Live at Telegraph is back again this summer, bringing a weekly Wednesday concert to the Telegraph District near 21st and Capital Parkway. The free concerts have been put on every summer for 7 years now, bringing together a variety of local artists to perform in the patio area outside The Mill...

Architecture graduate students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln dreamed up a new approach to Nebraska’s growing affordable housing needs. Now, they’re finally breaking ground. The project — titled “Our Story” — will start with two affordable housing units built on one 4,770-square-foot lot in North Omaha’s...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Lincoln Fire & Rescue put out a car fire in west Lincoln on Wednesday evening. The fire was reported about 5:30 p.m. at Zoetis at West Cornhusker Highway and Northwest Seventh Street. Zoetis makes animal medicine and vaccines. It was close to one of the...

Lincoln Crime Stoppers is seeking the public’s help in identifying suspects in two separate cases. One involves a pair of apartment complex car thieves, the other involves a man repeatedly trespassing on the porch of a home in west Lincoln. The first case occurred around 4:15 a.m. on Friday,...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms will be possible Thursday and Friday. The weekend looks to be warmer with a chance of isolated showers and thunderstorms both days. The first half of next week should be dry. Thursday will be mostly cloudy with below average temperatures. Areas...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A man is suing the City of Lincoln, Lancaster County and the state of Nebraska for the damage he sustained after allegedly being shot in the head with a projectile during the 2020 George Floyd protests. The lawsuit, which was filed by Marcel Austin on May...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A Nebraska prison inmate died Wednesday behind bars, according to authorities. Nicholas Bailey died at the age of 78 at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution. Bailey began serving his sentence in 2016 for two counts of sexual assault of a child in Lancaster County. He was...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Lincoln Crime Stoppers is asking for your help in finding car thieves and a trespasser in two separate cases. On May 24 around 4:15 a.m., two people were seen entering the parking garage of an apartment complex in the area of South 48th Street and Yankee Hill Road.

LINCOLN — A Lincoln entrepreneur born and raised in Auburn announced his 2026 candidacy Wednesday for an open seat on the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. Brent Comstock, 29, is the CEO of the Lincoln-based marketing firm BCom, which he started a decade ago, after having thought up the idea for the business...