Margaret Reist

Local government reporter

Four suggested changes totaling $450,000 were suggested by council members to the mayor’s proposed biennial budget.

Two big developments have or are about to cross the finish line: a mixed-use project in University Place, the other an unusual affordable housing project at 46th and Vine streets.

The Lincoln City Council voted to approve two changes to the mayor's proposed budget that would shift money to help do an assessment of city ballfields and trees.

For Lincoln drivers who have questioned whether they can turn right or left on a red arrow (and perhaps decided it was OK to go ahead), state law just clarified the answer: No, you can't.

A major commercial development in northwest Lincoln is regrouping after Fleet Farm, the big box retailer the developer had been negotiating with, backed out.

Garner Industries plans to sell the land where the remains of its manufacturing plant sit after a tornado blew through the area and took the company’s operation with it.

The City Council will vote at its next meeting on whether to ask voters to approve a $13.9 million stormwater bond issue. Voters have approved 15 such bond issues.

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Lincoln will have a new park in northwest Lincoln near 27th and Arbor Road on a portion of 154 acres that will also include conservation of 21 acres