The Lancaster County Board on Tuesday approved the application for the turnback tax to be used to finance Lincoln's ...

Sherilyn Fritz, a professor in UNL's School of Biological Sciences, was among 120 new inductees to receive the highest ...

The City Council held a public hearing on a plan to improve University Place by slowing traffic along 48th Street, doing a ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a ...

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its ...

The Supreme Court acted Tuesday in the dispute over a policy that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service.

Here's where you will find links to the Journal Star's profiles and Q&As with all the candidates for Lincoln City Council, ...

Gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas, skiing's Bode Miller, beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings and Nike founder Phil Knight are also in the group.

City officials and supporters testified Monday at a public hearing on proposed changes that would make growing and selling ...

The artistic director of the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival which lost its grant for events in Lincoln and Omaha, called ...

Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty won't run in the Preakness Stakes. That means there will not be a Triple Crown winner for a seventh consecutive year.

In just a matter of days, Lincoln will be getting a slice of the future with authentic Italian pizza just a few clicks away ...