Posted: 4:21 PM Fourth-grade students across Nebraska are being asked to put their artistic skills to work to raise awareness about severe weather.

Posted: 9:04 AM NASA says a big asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years.

Posted: 8:49 AM Californians are bundling up with sweaters and gloves and stocking up on firewood as they brace for several nights of very unseasonable freezing temperatures.

Posted: 6:37 AM A national report says Nebraska was one of two states that experienced its hottest and driest year on record in 2012.

Posted: 6:08 PM Government meteorologists say 2012 was by far the hottest year on record in the United States.

Posted: 6:13 PM Astronomers estimate one in six stars in our Milky Way galaxy has a planet the size of Earth orbiting it. That translates to at least 17 billion Earth-size planets.

Posted: 6:10 PM Nine weeks after Superstorm Sandy sent them fleeing, residents of some of the hardest-hit parts of the New Jersey shore can go home again.

Updated: 10:43 PM Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler announced Friday an adjustment to the City’s snow removal operations to address the accumulation of ice and snowpack on City residential streets.

Posted: 6:12 PM Scientists say a 2-billion-year-old rock from Mars that landed on Earth is quite different from other Martian meteorites.

Posted: 6:08 PM Holiday storms that pounded much of the nation with snow and rain did little to ease the overall grip of the worst U.S. drought in decades.

Posted: 4:03 PM The storms that recently covered parts of the U.S. with snow won't be enough to ease the nation's drought.

Posted: 9:46 AM NASA's newest Mars rover is gearing up for a road trip. But first, it has to drill into a rock.

Posted: 6:19 PM Entergy Arkansas says it has restored power to about 40 percent of its 194,000 customers who lost electricity in the Christmas Day winter storm, but says the pace has slowed due to the difficult nature of the job.

Updated: 6:10 PM The snow and rain have stopped in parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts, but snow continues to fall in upstate New York and northern New England.

Posted: 6:36 AM Light snow is expected to hit most of Iowa and parts of Nebraska as both states recover from a powerful storm last week.

Posted: 6:28 AM A powerful storm system that affected the Gulf Coast and parts of the Midwest on Christmas Day could cause some flight delays for people traveling through Iowa and Nebraska for the holidays.

Posted: 6:04 PM Even the snowplows have had trouble dealing with the snowy conditions in Indiana, where four state plows slid off slick roads near Vincennes Wednesday. Snow was falling at the rate of three inches an hour in some spots.

Posted: 7:21 AM An enormous storm system that dumped snow and sleet on the nation's midsection and unleashed damaging tornadoes around the Deep South began punching its way toward the Northeast on Wednesday, slowing holiday travel.

Updated: 6:34 PM When Santa delivers presents to kids in Nebraska, he'll land his sleigh on snow something that he hasn't done in two years.

Updated: 1:06 PM Click in the story to see a list of business closings and event cancellations due to the weather.

Posted: 7:57 AM As the season's first widespread snowstorm moves on, holiday travelers hope that means they can, too.

Posted: 1:45 PM Iowa and Nebraska take a heavy hit from the major snowstorm moving across the Plains and into the Midwest.

Updated: 5:37 PM Roads are still slick and Lincoln City officials say 'don't drive if you don't have to'.

Updated: 8:22 AM Click in the story for the latest weather conditions and forecast.

Updated: 1:23 PM Interstate 80 from Utica to Kearney remains closed as of 11:00 a.m., (CST), due to snow pack and rough ice.