Omaha Westside’s girls 3,200-meter relay obliterated the state record and gained a rare spot for Nebraska on the national charts at the Metro Conference championships.
Jackson Brockett tossed Nebraska’s first individual no-hitter since 1954 and Nebraska cruised past Kansas State on Wednesday night.
Creighton center Ryan Kalkbrenner will return for the 2024-25 season, he announced via social media Wednesday afternoon.
Five-star freshman Dylan Raiola heads into the summer as a frontrunner to start for Nebraska. That may make him an outlier among the blue-chip quarterbacks in his class.
In a conference hardly recognizable after realignment, Nebraska now knows its opponents and locations for the 2024-25 season.
Dodge County Attorney Pamela Hopkins has filed official felony charges against Midland University Associate Athletics Director Steven D. Heimann, accusing him of two felonies.
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An Omaha man was sentenced last week to more than 11 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to carrying out two armed robberies at local banks.
An 18-year-old Omaha man charged in an arrest warrant with being accessory to a fatal shooting in November has been booked into the Douglas County Jail.
The Omaha City Council approved Mayor Jean Stothert's proposal to resume funding for PACE, beginning with $50,000 this summer.
Voters in downtown and South Omaha can choose from among four candidates with long histories of public involvement to be their next representative in the Nebraska Legislature.
The Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting is a huge boost to the local economy. It signals the start of the summer tourism season and puts Omaha in the national and international spotlight. "This is our Christmas."
While a small chance of severe storms exists during the day today, the better chance is expected this evening and through the overnight hours. Damaging wind, hail, flooding, and tornadoes are all possible. Full details in our updated forecast.
People are finding photos and other items as far as 90 miles away from the tornadoes in Elkhorn and Blair and are trying to find the owners.
Like two ships passing in the night, so continued the midweek trends of Creighton and Nebraska. The latest clinched a Bluejays sweep over the Huskers Tuesday night.
"We have proven we can work without them, so we will eliminate them and return the money to the taxpayers," Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said of eliminating nearly 1,000 state jobs.
In an email to season ticket holders, Nebraska's athletic department announced why the football team is moving to the west sideline for home games.
With the NIL opt-in deadline on April 30, here’s what we know about Nebraska’s involvement in the upcoming EA Sports football video game based on information obtained via public records request.
The 1980s MLB star spoke to dozens of students, including members of the Boys Town baseball team, on Tuesday.
In an echo of last year, opponents of a new Nebraska law appropriating state funds to support scholarships to private schools are trying to partially repeal the law through a voter referendum.
Three weeks after entering the transfer portal, former Creighton center Fredrick King has withdrawn his name and re-signed with the Jays.
Promoter Eddie Hearn praised Omaha native Bud Crawford as a “generational great,” but was confident in Israil Madrimov’s ability to defend his title. That's when Bud interjected: “Keep hoping. Your heart gonna be broken again.”
Nebraska’s lengthy pursuit of more size and muscle culminated in a Tuesday commitment from Braxton Meah, a 7-foot-1 center who spent the past two seasons at Washington.
By Tuesday afternoon, Douglas County had received reports of tornado or storm damage to 834 properties, most of them residential structures.
A tornado watch has been issued for portions of eastern Nebraska and western Iowa until 10 p.m. Tuesday. Heavy rain and lightning will be common and damaging wind, hail, and tornadoes are possible.
Former UNK women’s basketball coach Carrie Eighmey was named the new coach at South Dakota on Tuesday.
A Grand Island daycare provider was charged Tuesday with intentional child abuse resulting in death after a two-month-old infant died at an Omaha hospital.
An Omaha man became the second person arrested in connection with the shooting of two men in the Benson business district.
Creighton center Ryan Kalkbrenner is an early entrant in the 2024 NBA Draft, the league announced Tuesday morning.
The Air Force wants to replace the aging E-4B "Doomsday" jets based at Offutt Air Force Base. The Pentagon is spending $13 billion on a replacement that will be delivered by the mid-2030s.
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Union Pacific managers undermined the government's efforts to assess safety at the railroad after several high-profile derailments across the industry, federal regulators say.
Take a look at photos from University of Lincoln as students and community members gather to form a 'liberated zone for Palestine' outside the City Union.
Nebraska regulators have opened another investigation into Lumen after its latest 911 outage has left questions unanswered and frustrations mounting for regulators and lawmakers alike.
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Peter Wanjohi may have saved his best, but the Omaha Westside senior is hoping it wasn’t for last. He scored three times for the Warriors in a district championship victory Wednesday night over Lincoln Southeast.
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The Creighton women’s soccer team will play six matches against teams that reached last year’s NCAA tournament.
The Spartans became the first Lincoln school since Southeast in 1977 to capture the championship and begins its journey for a repeat title this weekend at district play.
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