The county has about 208,000 registered voters, and the election commission has received and processed more than 34,000 early vote ballot requests for the general election.

Nebraska football and volleyball will share FOX on Oct. 10, with the Huskers hosting Indiana in football at 11 a.m. before facing Wisconsin in volleyball at 6 p.m.

Nebraska’s first major football challenge of the season now has a kickoff time for the Indiana game.

Hurricane Polo is expected to make landfall in Mexico on Monday. Its remnants could bring heavy rain and flooding to the Central Plains.

Parts of southwest Lincoln went dark Monday after a power outage.

Lincoln Police in Nebraska arrested parents after their nonverbal 2-year-old was found wandering alone in a parking lot. She and her 9-month-old brother were left home alone while the parents attended church and went shopping.

The Huskers are undefeated, Applejack drew crowds and early voting is beginning. It must be fall in Nebraska.

As the regular season crosses the midway point, get caught up with the latest update to our high school football rankings.

A 44-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine after a search of his home uncovered nearly 6 pounds of the drug.

We reached out to candidates in contested general elections and asked them to provide biographical information and answer questions relevant to the offices they seek.

Two area beef producers finish atop a U.S. competition, a new chicken restaurant and another brewer has served its last beer top Lincoln business news.

There’s a new No. 1 in Lincoln’s 11-man football power rankings. Northeast takes the top spot after a 54-17 win, while North Star and Southwest fall following losses.

Anna Kleiber reports on the Nebraska's congressional delegation, the state Legislature and statewide issues for the Lincoln Journal Star. Check out her recent stories.

Aaron Hanson says collaborating with feds helps keep residents safe while immigrant advocates say Hanson is undermining trust in local law enforcement.

Two expecting mothers, part of Nebraska's midwifery community, appeal a federal judge's ruling denying a preliminary injunction to prevent the enforcement of a ban on certified nurse midwives assisting in home births in Nebraska.

Here's how some of the Lincoln-area legislative candidates plan to approach Nebraska's budget deficit and what they hope to prioritize if elected.

Nearly a year after the vote to end their athletics co-op, their first football meeting as separate teams showed both the hurt and the pride in what comes next.

There was a lot of good Nebraska football feelings Saturday, like walk-on Vincent Genatone's two touchdowns. But it wasn't one person or group leading the Husker charge, Amie Just writes.

Nebraska’s defense delivered six sacks, three takeaways and relentless pressure as the Huskers overcame offensive miscues and Michigan State’s fourth-quarter push to win their Big Ten opener.

Vince Genatone went from scout-team workhorse to unlikely hero, scoring two touchdowns after Jamal Rule’s injury as Nebraska beat Michigan State 31-13 in its Big Ten opener.

A game of chess with hammers. If Matt Rhule’s program was truly better, this would be the game where it showed. And it did, Tom Shatel writes.

After Nebraska’s 4-0 start, players spontaneously walked to the east stands to high-five traveling fans after the win over Michigan State.

Donovan Jones wasn’t supposed to blitz. He saw an opening anyway, took off and delivered a momentum-stopping turnover for Nebraska.

Nebraska’s rugby punter Archie Wilson survived Michigan State’s aggressive pressure, while the Huskers’ special teams limited Kenneth Williams.

Nebraska benefited from a third-quarter replay overturning a Michigan State catch, then forced a missed field goal after Jahsear Whittington’s sack.

Check out Tom Shatel's three takes from Nebraska football's win over Michigan State.

Here are a few of Amie Just's takes on Nebraska's 31-13 win over Michigan State.

Check out three things we learned and three things we still don't know about the Huskers after Nebraska's 31-13 win over Michigan State.

Check out Sam McKewon's Husker Report Card after Nebraska's win over Michigan State.

The 58th annual AppleJack Festival celebrates the apple harvest in Nebraska City over two weekends.

Nebraska hits the road for the first Big Ten conference game of the season. Here’s what to know about the matchup, including how to watch and listen.

Iran raised the initiative, which proposed to end hostilities in the Persian Gulf within seven days, at the U.N. General Assembly.

Two men ended up facing drug charges following a stop Thursday afternoon on Interstate 80 near Lincoln that turned up 1-½ pounds of methamphetamine.

No. 1 Nebraska faces Ohio State on Saturday. Here’s how to watch, listen and follow the match.

Carson Woods, a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, made history this year when he became the first male member of the Husker Scarlets dance team.

Lincoln North Star entered Friday 4-0. Elkhorn North held the Navigators to 133 yards, forced two costly third-quarter turnovers and won 42-0.

A child, believed to be 3-5 years old and non-verbal, was found alone in the 500 block of North 24th Street at about 7:15 p.m. Friday.

Top-ranked Nebraska swept Rutgers to open Big Ten play Friday. Here are three takes as the Huskers improved to 12-0.

The dispute, waged in both state and federal courts, led to multiple conflicting court rulings.

As College View Academy and Union Adventist University prepare to trade spaces, the private K-12 school celebrated a groundbreaking for its future building on Friday.

A 34-year-old former Lincoln man, Cesar Leos Jr. sentenced to probation and house arrest for unintentionally killing Omaha woman Kristine Hess in a tragic crash last November.

A Lincoln woman admitted she saw the gas pump glitch as a quick way to make money. A judge says she’s now on the right path.

The Supreme Court on Friday handed the Trump administration a win in its effort to increase federal involvement in the midterm elections.

Beginning with Nebraska vs. Michigan State, the Journal Star’s panel makes its picks for 10 notable games on the Week 4 schedule.

Walk into a nursing program or a teacher-prep classroom, and you’ll notice the same thing: almost no men. That’s a missed opportunity Nebraska can’t afford.

A federal judge dismissed the case against a passenger arrested after TSA officers found an explosive device in his luggage at Eppley Airfield.

A district judge has found a Waverly man not responsible by reason of insanity for threatening police, swinging a metal pole, and committing vandalism at a hotel in Lincoln. The judge ordered him to be committed for evaluation and treatment.

No. 1 Nebraska faces Rutgers on Friday. Here’s how to watch, listen and follow the match.

Agricultural producers will be exempt from tax on diesel and interstate weight limits Gov. Jim Pillen announced Thursday in an effort to provide some relief ahead of the fall harvest.

Waverly had already beaten Gretna once this season. Thursday’s sweep, in a best-of-five match before about 1,100 fans, felt different to the Vikings.