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Ricketts Announces Upcoming Mobile Office Hours
Aug 16, 2024 / Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) announced his constituent casework staff will be hosting Mobile Office Hours arou...
Nebraska Unemployment Rate Unchanged
Aug 16, 2024 / Department of Labor
LINCOLN - The Nebraska Department of Labor (NDOL) announced today that Nebraska’s preliminary unemployment rate for July 2024 is 2.6 percent,...
Senator Ricketts’ Weekly Column: Biden-Harris Inflation Making Back-to-School Too Expensive
Aug 16, 2024 / Pete Ricketts
For the past three and a half years, families have struggled under stubbornly high prices. The cause is Washington overspending and delusional regu...
NDOT Announces Funding Availability for Transportation Needs
Aug 16, 2024 / NDOT
Aug. 16, 2024 (Lincoln, Neb.) — The Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) has announced funds are now available to private non-pr...
Smith Calls out IRS Failures to Update Technology Systems
Aug 15, 2024 / Press Release
Today, Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE), released the following statement after a report from the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration fo...
Rural Mainstreet Economy Fell to 2024 Low
Aug 15, 2024 / Creighton University
August 2024 Survey Results at a Glance: For a 12th straight month, the overall Rural Mainstreet Index sank below growth neutral, according to bank...
NDOT Announces Infrastructure Hub to Support Transportation Network Development
Aug 15, 2024 / NDOT
Aug. 14, 2024 (Lincoln, Neb.) — The Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) announced the launch of the state’s first-ever in...
RTC inmate death
Aug 15, 2024 / DOC
(Lincoln, Neb.) – Duane Schriner #34953, age 69, died Wednesday morning at the Reception and Treatment Center Skilled Nursing Facility. Schr...
Ricketts To Host Federal Spending Briefings Across Nebraska
Aug 15, 2024 / Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) announced he will be hosting a series of Federal Spending Briefings across the st...
Two Arrested, Missing Juvenile Recovered Safely in Thomas County
Aug 15, 2024 / NSP
AUGUST 14, 2024 (NORTH PLATTE, NEB.) — A multi-agency effort led to the recovery of a missing juvenile and the arrest of two men on sev...
NSP Launches Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Campaign
Aug 14, 2024 / Mikayla Hall – Marketing & Communications Specialist
AUGUST 14, (LINCOLN, NEB.) — The Nebraska State Patrol launched an enforcement campaign to close-out the summer travel season. Th...
Attorney General Mike Hilgers Challenges Biden-Harris Administration’s Unlawful Voter Registration Scheme
Aug 14, 2024 / AG
LINCOLN – Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers joined a coalition of nine attorneys general in challenging the Biden-Harris administration&...
Nebraska Crop Production & Progress Report
Aug 14, 2024 / USDA
NEBRASKA CROP PRODUCTION REPORTLINCOLN, Neb. August 12, 2024 - Based on August 1 conditions, Nebraska's 2024 corn production is forecast at 1.88 bi...
Nebraska Legislature Advances Scaled Back Property Tax Relief Plan
Aug 14, 2024 / Press Release
Governor Pillen Issues Statement Thanking Bipartisan Coalition of Senators for First-Round Advancement of Consensus Property Tax Relief Plan L...
Phillips Man Sentenced for Receipt and Possession of Child Pornography
Aug 14, 2024 / DOJ
United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Frantz Kolbjornsen, age 44, of Phillips, Nebraska, was sentenced on August 13, 2024, in federal co...
Process for Disclosing Foreign-Owned Land
Aug 13, 2024 / Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and Deb Fischer (R-NE) joined a bipartisan effort urging the U.S. Department of ...
Now Hiring Troopers! Nebraska State Patrol Opens Applications
Aug 12, 2024 / NSP
AUGUST 12, 2024 (LINCOLN, NEB.) — The Nebraska State Patrol is now accepting applications to start a career serving Nebraskans as a Sta...
Ricketts Announces Upcoming Mobile Office Hours
Aug 12, 2024 / Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) announced his constituent casework staff will be hosting Mobile Office Hours arou...
Nebraska students’ environmental artwork to be featured in 2025 “Nebraska: Don’t Waste It!” calendar
Aug 12, 2024 / NDEE
The artwork of 13 Nebraska students will be featured in the 2025 “Nebraska: Don’t Waste It!” environmental calendar. The statewid...
Gov. Pillen Hosts 'One Nebraska' Ag and Economic Development Summit
Aug 12, 2024 / Press Release
LINCOLN, NE – This week, Governor Jim Pillen welcomed 600 leaders to Younes Conference Center North in Kearney for “One Nebraska: the G...
Losing the Pathway to Growth
Aug 12, 2024 / By Rep. Adrian Smith
Severe inflation, stock market turbulence, and troubling workforce data have driven recent economic concerns for American families already struggli...
Hastings rodeo to feature Mega Band, a combo of three area high school band
Aug 12, 2024 / Ruth Nicolaus For the Oregon Trail Rodeo
Hastings, Neb. (August 12, 2024) – Something new is coming to the Oregon Trail Rodeo in Hastings this weekend. The Mega Band, a band formed ...
Diamond Shruumz Product Recall and Notice to Nebraska Retailers
Aug 9, 2024 / AG
The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office is issuing a warning to retailers and consumers regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FD...
Education Officials Oppose New Property Tax Relief Plan
Aug 9, 2024 / Press Release
A coalition of education organizations has come out in opposition of the property tax relief plan which should come to the floor of the legislature...
Senator Ricketts’ Weekly Column: The Border Catastrophe Hurts Nebraska
Aug 9, 2024 / Pete Ricketts
Our country faces a safety, drug, and humanitarian catastrophe at the southern border. Yet the impacts of it are felt much closer to home. Since 20...