Updated: Jan. 12, 2021 at 9:52 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts urged patience Tuesday as the state continues work on the digital rollout of its general COVID-19 vaccination plan.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 at 9:06 AM CST
|By Harper Lundgren, Leigh Waldman and Gina Dvorak
State officials said Monday they are planning to launch the website for Nebraskans to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations in late January.
Updated: Jan. 8, 2021 at 9:23 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
In his update on Nebraska’s COVID-19 response Friday, Gov. Pete Ricketts reported the state’s hospitalizations had fallen below 500 for the first time since October.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2021 at 2:41 PM CST
|By Harper Lundgren and Gina Dvorak
Talking from Washington, D.C., Nebraska lawmakers described what it was like to watch the chaos unfold at the Capitol after protestors stormed the federal building while the joint session was debating the 2020 Electoral College results.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2021 at 9:29 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Back in session Wednesday morning, members of the Unicameral were sworn in by the state’s chief justice, Michael G. Heavican.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2021 at 9:18 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Nebraska officials said Wednesday they are on the lookout for the new strain of COVID-19 positively identified in Colorado as the state’s vaccination rollout continues.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 9:01 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and other state officials gave an update on the state’s COVID-19 vaccine plan during Monday morning’s news conference.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2020 at 10:39 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is giving an update on the state’s COVID-19 response at 9 a.m. Friday.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2020 at 11:17 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Recipients of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations administered at CHI Health on Monday are talking about how things are going a day later.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2020 at 12:20 PM CST
|By Cecelia Jenkins and Gina Dvorak
Gov. Pete Ricketts will officially loosen some of the state’s restrictions effective at 12:01 a.m. Saturday — the seventh consecutive day Nebraska’s COVID-19 hospitalizations have been at 20% or lower.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2020 at 6:12 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Nebraska’s COVID-19 vaccination plan lists the incarcerated and homeless as populations included in the last part of the state vaccination rollout’s first phase.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2020 at 3:08 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Nebraska and 16 other states have joined a lawsuit initially filed by the Texas attorney general demanding that the 62 total Electoral College votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin be invalidated.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2020 at 4:24 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Gov. Pete Ricketts on Wednesday urged Nebraska’s employers to believe employees when they say they’ve been exposed to the virus and allow them to quarantine.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2020 at 1:19 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Dr. Cary Ward of CHI Health, Dr. Bill Lydiatt of Methodist, and Dr. Harris Frankel of Nebraska Medicine are giving an update Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, on the health systems' respective plans for elective surgeries, bed capacities, and navigating the coming months.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 10:01 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
With one week until Election Day, President Trump ended his day on the campaign trail Tuesday in Omaha.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 3:07 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
President Trump is planning an Omaha campaign stop Tuesday evening.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2020 at 11:54 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
All of Nebraska, except Lancaster County, moves into Phase 4 today.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2020 at 4:53 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Brian Mastre
Embattled Democratic Senate candidate Chris Janicek is giving an update Monday ahead of the deadline to withdraw his candidacy.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2020 at 2:44 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
In an update Monday that featured a new slogan focused on the agricultural exports of Nebraska, Gov. Pete Ricketts also commented on the state penitentiary’s COVID-19 quarantine, medical marijuana, and the Big Ten’s fall sports decisions.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2020 at 6:42 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Former Congressman Brad Ashford confirmed on Thursday that he will not be running against Sen. Ben Sasse as a write-in candidate on the November ballot, citing a lack of time to run an effective campaign.