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Despite critical fire weather Tuesday, firefighters continued to make progress on the Road 702 Fire in southwest Nebraska. Nebraska Emergency Management says the fire is now 74% contained.

The city planning commission voted in favor of the new development that would add 575 new houses and 30,000 square-feet for commercial use near the intersection of Highway 77 and West Pioneers Boulevard.

A new anti-racist toolkit from the Farmers Market Coalition is designed to help managers of farmers markets think about messaging, vendor support and product availability.

The English Language: most lifelong Americans take it for granted. For Yazidi refugees seeking a new life in middle-America, language hurdles can prevent access to physical and mental healthcare resources, as well as other necessities.A UNL study finds Yazidi refugees in Nebraska face challenges in accessing healthcare resources. The Yazidi are an ethnic group that have faced persecution in Eastern Asia.

A Harvard Law program will join the ACLU of Nebraska in a lawsuit against Cody Kilgore Unified Schools – a suit that stems from cutting Native American children’s hair. The family of the children, members of the Lakota tribe, believe hair is a sacred symbol. A year later, the Nebraska chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit on behalf of the family – alleging first amendment violations.

Hundreds packed into Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Elwood Wednesday for the funeral of Darren Krull – the fire chief who died while fighting a massive fire in southwest Nebraska last week.

Heidi Thomas is pouring thousands of dollars into her narrow-halled home in Arapahoe. The renovations will hopefully make living here easier for her husband, Alan, who was recently kicked out of the only nursing facility in the 1,000-person town.

A volunteer fire chief died Thursday evening while responding to a fire in southwest Nebraska.

For the past 40 days, Alyona Bychkovska has been sleeping in a Kyiv subway station. On the first day of war, she started writing a war diary and posted her entries online. One of her friends, Viktor Khanzhyn, a Lincoln-based economics professor who grew up in Ukraine, translates it to English.

Mark Wetzel coaches baseball and softball hitters how to see the ball better, even though he's been blind most of his life. Mark has macular degeneration. It started affecting his eyesight when he was about 11.

Ford is electrifying its best-selling F-150 pickup. The F-150 Lightning is a pitch to rural drivers that you don’t need to be an early adopter or environmentalist for an electric vehicle to make sense.

Grand Island’s Fonner Park will drop the horse quarantine for its stable area starting Friday.Two confirmed cases of equine herpes in mid-March led to the Nebraska Department of Agriculture issuing the quarantine. Since then, there have been no reported cases in the stables at the popular central Nebraska racetrack.

Sprious has 19 employees in Ukraine. They are all men, which means they are required to stay in the country. Some have moved to the west, but at least one person has stayed in Kyiv to fight. Most of the employees’ families have left the country. Stateside, the data collection firm has raised $43,000 for its employees to help pay for food and housing.

The Omaha City Council heard public testimony Tuesday night about an amended proposal to strip the county’s health director of their epidemic authority. This revision doesn’t remove the health director of her complete authority – like the first proposed ordinance did. But it will give veto powers to the mayor and the city council.

The remote village of Lynch, Nebraska up near the South Dakota border lost their only grocery store and became a food desert in spring 2020. The community opened a new cooperative grocery store on March 26.

Agriculture often gets cited as the reason daylight saving time was put in place in the U.S. more than 100 years ago. Yet it turns out the time change has few benefits for farmers.

A York, Nebraska man leaves no doubt about his favorite rock band. Dennis Michalski has been all-in for the hard-driving rock band KISS since he first saw them in concert when he was 12 years old. His KISS memorabilia collection fills the basement of his home, and it's still growing.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, some Nebraskans with Ukrainian ties have continued to work and live in the state, while worrying about the fate of Ukraine and loved ones who still live there.

When most people think of maple syrup production, Vermont comes to mind. In the Midwest, Wisconsin and Michigan are the biggest producers. But there’s a lot of untapped potential for maple syrup in the lower Midwest.

Lincoln Resident Matthew Wegener touched down in Budapest, Hungary last week and describes his journey into Easter-Europe as an intense one. Wegener is Europe to escort Oksana Iziumova to a host home in Munich, Germany that agreed to shelter her while the war in Ukraine continues. Oksana is from the west-Ukrainian port city of Odessa.