Posted: 11:12 AM Democratic Senator Ben Nelson said goodbye Wednesday, thanking his staff and family, as well as all Nebraskans.

Posted: 7:00 AM State Treasurer Don Stenberg is pitching a gift idea for Nebraskans this holiday season: a state-sponsored college savings plan.

Posted: 3:20 PM A Texas court has ordered TransCanada to temporarily halt work on a private property where it is constructing part of an oil pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

Posted: 3:13 PM Nebraska will see a cut in federal Medicaid funding in the upcoming state budget, forcing lawmakers to make up the difference with state dollars.

Posted: 4:32 AM With the new year approaching quickly, tax hikes and spending cuts are starting to become a viable threat across the country and in Lincoln.

Updated: 10:22 PM Twenty-five candidates threw their name in the hat, wanting to claim Lincoln's open city council seat. But a request from current members probably stopped that number from getting any higher.

Updated: 6:20 AM Nebraska's outgoing Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood is bowing out of the governor's race less than a month after he declared he was running.

Posted: 8:18 PM Citing Lincoln’s unparalleled progress over the last four years, Gene Carroll today announced his intention to seek re-election to the Lincoln City Council.

Posted: 7:19 AM Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning is seeking a court order that would allow the state pardons board to commute the sentences of prison inmates serving life for crimes they committed as juveniles.

Posted: 6:44 AM Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman and first lady Sally Ganem are hosting an open house at the governor's residence to celebrate the holiday season.

Updated: 6:38 AM Nebraskans have another chance to let state regulators know at a public hearing what they think of a new oil pipeline route a Canadian company proposed.

Posted: 5:22 AM The farm bill was the hot topic at the Nebraska Farm Bureau's annual convention this year. It's also what many Nebraska farmers and ranchers said is the biggest issue on their minds.

Posted: 5:26 AM Gov. Dave Heineman says Nebraska will vigorously defend a policy that denies driver's licenses to young illegal immigrants, even if the state gets sued by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Posted: 9:37 AM Lawmakers are expected to consider a bill next year that would require Nebraska to give preference to in-state companies when awarding government contracts.

Posted: 7:40 PM President Barack Obama faces mounting pressure to decide whether to approve Keystone XL, a $7 billion proposed oil pipeline between the U.S. and Canada.

Updated: 7:51 PM Lawmakers are looking for ways to replace the revenue that Nebraska counties would lose if the state's inheritance tax was repealed.

Posted: 9:23 AM Less than a month after losing his bid to become U.S. senator for Nebraska, Bob Kerrey has been appointed to the board of hospital operator Tenet Healthcare Corp.

Posted: 7:29 AM U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry has been selected to serve on the prestigious House Committee on Appropriations.

Updated: 5:04 AM U.S. Rep. Lee Terry was chosen to head the House Energy and Commerce Committee's commerce and trade subcommittee.

Posted: 5:23 AM Could the 2012 Farm Bill, now in limbo, become part of the current negotiations over the Fiscal Cliff in Washington, DC.?

Posted: 7:30 AM The merits of the death penalty will be debated at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Wednesday.

Updated: 6:43 AM The looming fiscal cliff Congress and President Obama wish to avoid is not too far off.

Posted: 4:22 AM Lincoln City Council Chair Carl Eskridge released the names of the 26 residents who have applied for appointment to Adam Hornung's seat on the Council.

Posted: 6:55 AM President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or less.

Posted: 4:01 PM Billionaire Warren Buffett is again calling for higher taxes on the "ultrarich" and he's urging Congress to compromise on spending cuts and tax increases.