Posted: 5:56 AM Officials in Omaha say they're planning to discuss a bill that would limit furlough and good time privileges to violent criminals.

Updated: 5:36 PM UNL and State College System students' tuition will freeze for two years.

Posted: 11:52 AM TransCanada Corporation is pleased that the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) has issued its final evaluation report to Governor Dave Heineman on the proposed re-route of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline.

Posted: 7:01 AM President Barack Obama will nominate John Brennan as his next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Updated: 10:46 PM Former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is President Barack Obama's pick to be the next defense secretary.

Updated: 2:36 PM The 113th Congress has passed a $9.7 billion bill to help pay flood insurance claims to homeowners, renters and businesses damaged by Superstorm Sandy.

Posted: 2:29 PM It's official. A tally of the Electoral College vote affirms President Barack Obama's re-election.

Posted: 9:15 AM A state evaluation of TransCanada's route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline through Nebraska has been sent to the governor.

Posted: 9:12 AM U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer has been named to Senate committees dealing with the military, environment and small business.

Posted: 6:54 PM U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns has been named to the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, as well as those dealing with agriculture, banking and veterans.

Updated: 10:45 PM A new group of lawmakers started work Thursday in Washington, D.C. Among them is Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer.

Posted: 6:00 AM The House is headed for a vote on aid for Superstorm Sandy victims after House Speaker John Boehner mollified Republicans from New York and New Jersey upset with his decision to cancel action on the bill.

Posted: 4:25 AM Congress averted the fiscal cliff, but unfortunately it still involves the federal government taking more of your money.

Posted: 4:10 PM Moody's Investors Service says Congress must go beyond its deal this week and come up with a plan to shrink the budget deficit if it wants to keep the U.S. government's top credit rating.

Updated: 6:25 AM Legislation to block the "fiscal cliff" is headed to the White House for President Barack Obama's signature. The bill will avoid, for now, the major tax increases and government spending cuts that had been scheduled to take effect with the new year.

Posted: 12:23 AM Legislation to prevent the government from going over the so-called fiscal cliff will also block a $900 automatic pay hike for members of Congress.

Updated: 10:42 PM CBS News reports a deal has been reached , but the country will still go over the fiscal cliff - at least temporarily.

Posted: 11:44 AM Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach rejects the idea that a tough stance against illegal immigration is at least partly to blame for fellow Republican Mitt Romney's loss in the presidential election.

Posted: 7:37 PM Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.

Posted: 5:38 AM Nebraska will ring in the new year with a host of new state laws.

Posted: 5:22 AM A deduction for charitable giving is one of many tax breaks set to expire if congress does not reach a compromise by the end of 2012.

Posted: 2:02 PM A state panel has concluded that Nebraska road and bridge projects are almost always chosen based on need, and not political pressure.

Posted: 2:57 PM Two senators say former Sen. Chuck Hagel would face a difficult confirmation if nominated by President Barack Obama to be defense secretary.

Posted: 1:49 PM Vice President Joe Biden and the Obama administration will push to tighten gun laws in response to last Friday's massacre in Connecticut.

Posted: 4:00 PM President Barack Obama's possible pick of Republican Chuck Hagel to run the Pentagon is raising serious concerns among some of his former Senate colleagues.