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BANCROFT, Neb. – Nebraska Public Media has been named the recipient of the Wordsender Award by the John G. Neihardt Foundation, the group announced this week. It credited the public broadcaster based in Lincoln as “an essential beacon of news concerning the state’s literary figures, the arts and the humanities.” NPM,...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – Lincoln police are searching for a man who robbed a gas station early Saturday morning. Officers were called to the Kwik Shop near N 1st Street and Cornhusker Highway around 12:10 a.m. on reports of a robbery. According to LPD, a man went into the...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A Youth Climate Summit was held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s east campus on Friday, gathering young people from the community to learn more about climate change and what can be done about it in Nebraska. This is the seventh year the summit’s been put...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - In an effort to make support and care accessible for people living with childhood trauma, Lincoln child advocacy center BraveBe is implementing a decades-old online assessment developed by the CDC. They call it ‘Brave fACEs.’ It launched in November 2024, and they are raising awareness to...

LINCOLN–(KFOR Sept. 25)–A student at Lincoln Southeast High School is facing a felony charge, after a school resource officer this week found a disassembled gun in his backpack on the school’s campus. Court documents say the 16-year-old was arrested for possessing a firearm on school property on...

‘Breadcrumb’ of evidence led Lincoln Police to rescue missing woman, suspect in custody. Lincoln Police said a woman reported missing Thursday morning was found safe Thursday night, and her ex-boyfriend is in custody. University of Nebraska-Lincoln hosts Youth Climate Summit to invigorate young activists. Updated: 46...

LINCOLN — A Kansas pipeline company is about to activate its $1.5 billion pipeline to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in Nebraska and Iowa to a sequestration site in Wyoming and, along with it, launch a first-of-its-kind program to share some proceeds with rural communities along the pipeline route.

More than 3,500 young runners representing over 90 area elementary schools will take part in the 24th annual Pumpkin Run on Sunday in the West Haymarket. The one-mile fun run is the largest youth-only event of its kind in the nation. It will begin near Canopy and ‘P’ Streets and...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A new resource center aimed at helping people connect with local services held its grand opening Thursday morning. The Hope House at First Plymouth Church near 21st and E Street started as an idea a couple years ago. Leaders at the church realized community members needed...

NEBRASKA — The Nebraska Forest Service (NFS), part of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR), has secured more than $24 million in Community Wildfire Defense Grants from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to implement wildfire mitigation projects across Brown and Rock...