Zach Hammack

Lincoln Public Schools called off classes Tuesday due to dangerously cold temperatures forecast for the area, the district's first weather-related closing of the school year.

This year was the first hunting season for the Wildcats Hill unit, which encompasses parts of the Panhandle, including Scotts Bluff County.

Long before it stored mowers and carts and tools used to keep a golf course well groomed, the unassuming red maintenance shed near the par-4 No. 8 hole was bustling with people.

During his tenure, Wieskamp oversaw three bond issues totaling $693 million and the construction of nine new schools and a new district office, which opened in 2013 after a devastating fire two years prior.

Lincoln Christian School's elementary principal will take over as superintendent this summer. Please subscribe to continue reading…

One person was arrested after Nebraska State Patrol troopers shot at a driver who allegedly drove at them following a pursuit in Omaha early Saturday morning.

The University of Nebraska and the Nebraska Department of Education were both considering the effects of a presidential directive freezing most federal aid payments beginning on Tuesday.

President Trump pausing all federal grants and loans, potentially impacting trillions in government spending and freezing public programs that impact millions.

Becky Gould, executive director of Nebraska Appleseed, said the order could disrupt benefits and services of thousands of Nebraskans, as well as the agencies and community groups serving them.

Officials across Nebraska spent Tuesday in "panic mode," scrambling to figure out what programs and projects across the state could be affected under an order to temporarily freeze federal funding and grant programs.