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The Nebraska State Education Association is concerned about the affects of a fiscal cliff on education in Nebraska.Spokeswoma...
The U.S. House passed a $383 million emergency drought relief bill yesterday evening, foregoing the farm bill before the ...
Nebraska U.S. Senator Mike Johanns introduced a measure that calls for a one year ban on the EPA's use of aerial surveill...
The Nebraska Farm Bureau announced this morning they are endorsing Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Deb Fischer because she i...
Medicaid Director Vivianne Chaumont was not invited to attend yesterday's legislative health care planning meeting.The Go...
Nebraska U.S. Senator Mike Johanns defends the current criteria for providing ranchers with grazing rights on public lands.Th...
Nebraska U.S. Senate hopefuls Deb Fischer and Bob Kerrey have agreed to a campaign debate at the State Fair in Grand Island.T...
Nebraska U.S. Senator Ben Nelson wants to make clear that even though somebody was able to make it past the first round of se...
The Republican candidates in tomorrow's primary election are vying for the title of most conservative, with the top three...
The Republican candidates in tomorrow's primary election are vying for the title of most conservative, with the top three...
Nebraska's two U.S. Senators voted on opposing sides as the senate passed a postal reform proposal.Senator Ben Nelson vot...
(AP) - Former Senator Bob Kerrey has changed hismind, and says he'll seek the Democratic nomination for theNebraska seat ...
Washington Post reported today that former DemocraticNebraska Governor and US Senator Bob Kerrey has decided to run for the s...
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning tells KLIN News thathis office will coordinate a legal challenge against a requirementi...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Former 1992 Democratic presidential candidateBob Kerrey says he will not make a decision this week on whet...
Nebraska Democrat U.S. Senator Ben Nelson took aim at Republican Governor Dave Heineman during his conference call with repor...
Two Nebraska Senators are responding to President Barak Obama's State of the Union address last night.Senator Mike Johann...
Opponents are setting up to filibuster a proposed bill to require a photo I-D to vote in Nebraska, but bill sponsor Senator C...
Nebraska 1st District Congressman Jeff Fortenberry will not run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Senator Ben Nelson....
Lincoln political consultant Phil Young tells KLIN's Drive Time Lincoln that Nelson's announcement is seen by some as a late ...
Jane Kleeb with Bold Nebraska tells KLIN's Jack and John this morning, she is not interested in joining the U-S Senate race a...
"It's time to move on."With those words, Nebraska U.S. Senator Ben Nelson announced via press release that he would...
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) - Millions of dollars for amajor construction project at Offutt Air Force Base are included ...
Nebraska Democrat U.S. Senator Ben Nelson adamantly disagrees with Nebraska's Republican delegation that contends extending t...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - State money that went to a Nebraska farmcoalition that fights animal welfare groups is drawing scrutinyf...
Nebraska U.S. Democrat Senator Ben Nelson says his decision to seek re-election would not be influenced by Republican Governo...
The Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor and the thousands who lost their lives that day are being remembered in Lincoln tod...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman says he alreadyhas the best job in America, but the Republican is evadingque...
U.S. Senator Ben Nelson tells KLIN Jack and John, he will have a decision by the end of the month if he will run for re-elect...
Senator Ben Nelson is asking the Department of Labor for more time before adding new regulations that would adversely affect ...
Both of Nebraska's U.S. Senators voted to prevent passage of President Barack Obama's proposed jobs bill. Senator Ben Nelson ...
Both of Nebraska's U.S. Senators voted to prevent passage of President Barack Obama's proposed jobs bill. Senator Ben Nelson ...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning hasfiled a challenge to the state's beleaguered campaign finance l...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The Nebraska Democratic Party alleges in acomplaint that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Bruning fa...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson has lobbed harshcriticism at Congress, dubbing recent partisan bickering as"job-...
We know Senator Ben Nelson doesn't want to be on the super committee, but what about Senator Mike Johanns? The Nebraska Repub...
U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson has voted against the debt ceiling deal in the Senate, making him the only member ofNebraska's congressi...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Democratic U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson raised morethan $910,000 for the second quarter that ended June 30 and...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - U.S. Sen. John Thune says a bipartisan group of 14 senators, including Nebraska Senators Mike Johann...
(AP) U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson has fired off a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over his concerns about two Nebraska nuc...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - State Sen. Deb Fischer says she decided toseek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate at the urging ofs...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - State Sen. Deb Fischer says she decided to seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate at the urging of...
The Army Corps of Engineers is increasing the water flow from the Gavins Point Dam near Yankton, South Dakota. Nebraska U-S ...
The Senate Armed Services Committee gave unanimous approval to construction of a new $564 million headquarters complex fo...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack isplanning to tour flooded areas in Iowa and Nebraska along theM...
Nebraska U.S. Senator Ben Nelson disagrees with calls for the Federal government to expedite action on the Keystone XL pipeli...
Nebraska U.S. Senator Ben Nelson traveled to CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia Tuesday morning to see the images that onl...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Federal authorities are checking thefinancial turmoil at the Omaha Housing Authority.U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson ...
(AP) Gov. Dave Heineman has vetoed a bill that would authorize Nebraska school districts to issue bonds for energy efficient ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson says computers and data gathered from the compound where al-Qaida leader Osama bin La...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson and his Republicanchallengers have released their campaign contribution totals in the...
Authorities say one person is dead and a Douglas County sheriff's deputy shot in a residential neighborhood south of downtown...
(AP) A Nebraska man has been sent to prison for holding up his own sister during a robbery at an adult store in Lincoln. A ju...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey is defending fellow Democrat Ben Nelson's U.S. Sena...
He's been State Treasurer for less than two months, but Don Stenberg has his eyes set on another position. Stenberg is now of...
Nebraska higher education leaders are urging Nebraska U.S. Senators Ben Nelson and Mike Johanns to support the Pell Grant pro...
Nebraska's newly sworn-in State Treasurer is jumping into the race for Senate. Don Stenberg is set to make his announcement o...
Nebraska U.S.Senator Ben Nelson welcomes President Obama's 2012 budget proposal, which calls for full authorization and fundi...
Nebraska U.S. Senator Ben Nelson told KLIN's Jack and John that he isn't putting much stock in a recent poll that shows him t...
(AP) Lawmakers have been selected to serve on the Nebraska Legislature's Redistricting Committee. State lawmakers must redraw...
(AP) Nearly two dozen state lawmakers signed a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton citing their con...
All 5 members of Nebraska's congressional delegation sat together at last night's State of the Union address, but reaction wa...
(AP) The Nebraska Liquor Control Commission wants to hear more from the public on a proposal to ban drinking games at bars. A...
(AP) The Nebraska Liquor Control Commission wants to hear more from the public on a proposal to ban drinking games at bars. A...
Nebraska's Democratic US Senator Ben Nelson came under scrutiny for being one of the deciding vote on the Federal Health Care...
(AP) A send-off ceremony has been scheduled for about 100 Nebraska Army National Guard members who are heading overseas to su...
Nebraska's two U.S.Senators voted with the majority Wednesday as the Senate ratified an arms control treaty with Russia. It r...
The final days of the Congressional lame-duck session have gotten more complicated with the introduction of a $1.2 Trillion s...
The final days of the Congressional lame-duck session have gotten more complicated with the introduction of a $1.1-Trillion s...
The final days of the Congressional lame-duck session have gotten more complicated with the introduction of a $1.1-Trillion s...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clintonsays no decision has been made on a proposed $7 billion pipeline ...
(AP) U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson has put job creation, extension of tax cuts and reduction of the federal deficit at the top of his ...
(AP) Pat Flynn has launched another Republican campaign for U.S. Senate. The 51-year-old from Schuyler joins Nebraska Attorne...
A former state cattle inspector has been indicted for faking tests for mad cow disease. The two-count indictment announced to...
(AP) - Nebraska's outgoing state treasurer says he has agreed to chair fellow Republican Jon Bruning's 2012 campaign for the ...
Nebraska US Senator Ben Nelson has little doubt that extending the Bush Tax Cuts will be at the forefront of discussion when ...
An anniversary celebration is planned for this morning in the main lobby of the V-A Medical Center in Omaha. V-A Nebraska - W...
(AP) U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, the lone Democrat in Nebraska's congressional delegation, says he plans to seek re-election in 201...
(AP) U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson says Nebraska educators don't have to choose between education funding and health care, as the stat...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Newly re-elected Attorney General Jon Bruning has announced he's considering running for a U.S. Senate s...
Just two days after his landslide re-election, Governor Dave Heineman announced that he will not be seeking the U.S. Senate s...
(AP) Nebraska authorities say nearly 200 pounds of marijuana and 51 grams of heroin were discovered in a rental truck. The Ne...
About 700 tea party enthusists gathered in the Lancaster Event Center yesterday for the "Restore America Rally." On...
