OPINION: Strong hospitals start with strong leaders
Read the full article on Nebraska Examiner Healthcare leadership has never been easy. But in Nebraska today, particularly in rural and community hospitals, it has become significantly more complex. For more than 15 years, I’ve worked with emerging healthcare leaders through the Nebraska Hospital Association’s Leadership Institute. Over that time, I’ve watched hundreds of healthcare […]
Are Nebraska startups the key to reversing the state’s brain drain problem?
Read the full article on KMTV 3 OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Nebraska’s brain drain problem has generated studies, initiatives, and no shortage of conversation. • Nebraska’s Omaha and Lincoln metro areas account for more than 60% of the state’s tax revenue but lag roughly 68,000 jobs behind peer cities, according to the Aksarben Foundation. • […]
Former NU regent changes course, pleads guilty to felony DUI charge
Read the full article on Nebraska Examiner OMAHA — Former University of Nebraska Regent Elizabeth O’Connor changed course and pleaded guilty Friday to driving under the influence and causing serious bodily injury in a May 2025 crash. O’Connor, 35, pleaded guilty to a Class IIIA felony following a May 21, 2025, crash in the Benson area […]
NU officials celebrate opening of medical school, expanded rural health teaching complex in Kearney
Read the full article on Nebraska Examiner LINCOLN — The latest $95 million structure to open on a rural health education complex in Kearney is expected to double the number of health care students on the campus, to about 625. That three-story, 110,000-square-foot building opens to full occupancy this month and will enable the University […]
Additional cruise passengers exposed to hantavirus transferred from Atlanta to Omaha
Read the full article on KMTV 3 OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Two passengers from the MV Hondius who were exposed to hantavirus have been transferred from Atlanta to Omaha and are now being housed in the National Quarantine Unit at UNMC. The transfer brings the total number of passengers being monitored in Omaha to 18. […]
Douglas County counts last early ballots; Powell still wins NE-02
Read the full article on Nebraska Examiner Ballot drop box signs at the Douglas County Election Commission office near 120th Street and West Center Road in Omaha, on Nov. 5, 2024. (Naomi Delkamiller/Nebraska News Service) OMAHA — Nebraska’s most populous area, Douglas County, finished counting the final day and a half of early voting ballots […]
New nonpartisan push in NE-01 as Austin Ahlman jumps into race
Read the full article on Nebraska Examiner LINCOLN — A new nonpartisan is running in eastern Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District, and his entry could complicate the path for Democratic nominee Chris Backemeyer to test Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Flood in a year when Democrats nationally expect to outperform the norm. Austin Ahlman, a progressive journalist, […]
Starting fires helped contain a Nebraska wildfire — and ignited another
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Appeals court sides with Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska in repatriation fight with US Army
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Omaha’s weekend Cinco de Mayo event marks more than century of fiestas
Read the full article on Nebraska Examiner OMAHA — Nebraska’s largest Cinco de Mayo festivities take place this weekend in South Omaha, including a Saturday morning parade with more than 100 entries from political candidates to charros on dancing horses. A past Cinco de Mayo event in Omaha. (Courtesy of Jim O’Keefe) Organizers say the […]