LAHAINA, Hawaii — Hawaii officials urged tourists to avoid traveling to Maui as many hotels prepared to house evacuees and first responders on…
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Ragged Right
1873: Bids "not to exceed $17,000" were being accepted by Lancaster County commissioners on a proposed new jail and sheriff's office. Built in…
CHINA | SEVERE WEATHER
In the recent point/counterpoint over the next farm bill (LJS, July 30), neither Benjamin Powell nor Lily Roberts mentioned the impact of our …
I see our newest governor is sending National Guard members to Texas, one reason being drugs coming across the border.
Thanks to a joint effort between two Nebraska state agencies, the 729-acre Merritt Reservoir State Recreation Area is now the first certified International Dark Sky Park in the state.
Home-and-garden
Extension programs this fall can offer knowledge that will help make your fall and next spring more rewarding in the garden and on the lawn.
Nearly 5,000 property valuation protests were filed this year; NU's Ted Carter on course for $144K bonus; fans can now reserve parking spots for sporting games.
HAWAII WILDFIRES
With apologies to companies that build the tennis barns that already exist in Woods Park, they are ugly. They are barns, pure and simple, and …
On Purple Heart Day, which was Aug. 7, we noted that the Major Richard Star Act, which gives full disability retirement pay to 50,000 severely…
Aubrey Trail seeks execution date; LPS fills all its teacher jobs; Hoiberg salary restored to $3.5 million.
MERRITT RESERVOIR — Last September, the International Dark-Sky Association confirmed what veterans of the Nebraska Star Party have known for 3…
He traveled to this year's Nebraska Star Party from his home on Long Island. "If you take a look at the light pollution map for New York, it's…
Contrary to Michael Henkenius’ recent letter attacking Support Our Schools Nebraska ("Petition isn't about the kids," Aug. 2), the petition is…
Food-and-cooking
Brown sugar rhubarb cookies connect us to our family childhood habit of picking a stalk of rhubarb behind the garage and eating it raw sprinkled with salt, sugar or both.
City wants to add Telegraph District to downtown business area; Flood touts bipartisanship at Lincoln town hall; Nebraska freshman LB out for season.
Beyonce covered the $100,000 cost of keeping local trains running after weather delayed her concert by two hours.
We've been lucky with more rain and cooler weather this summer. My friend Terry in Arizona has not been as fortunate.
GADGETS | REVIEWS
CLIMATE CHANGE
A man stands among downed power lines and poles Tuesday on Route 140 in Westminster, Md.Communities across the eastern United States cleared a…
I have lived in Lincoln for 30 years. I also went to college here for four years. I have never seen an Airport Authority and the employees of …
This summer we have had a series of headlines about extreme weather events.
Firefighters in Spain and Portugal were battling to keep wildfires spanning thousands of acres contained Monday as a scorching heatwave hit the Iberian peninsula, worsening conditions.