However, the remains of a giant steamboat still lie at the bottom of the Missouri River on the Iowa/Nebraska border to this day. It's been down there since the end of the Civil War and many of its ...

And so it ended, almost abruptly. Many pundits — me included — expected days of uncertainty, vote counting and legal ...

North Platte was saddened in 1923 by the death at age 36 of Paul Rolfe “P.R.” Halligan, commander of North Platte's Nebraska National Guard Company E during World War I.

In several Republican-led states, popular sentiment on the voucher issue has been overridden by the efforts of special ...

A Nebraska trade mission is to move on this weekend to Germany, where Gov. Jim Pillen will speak at a EuroTier cattle and pig ...

Republican Don Bacon has been elected to a fifth House term representing Nebraska’s Omaha-based 2nd District, nearly three ...

In 1848, a rugged survey set California’s northern border—crooked and hard to find, yet still standing today, a testament to sheer grit and old-school guesswork.

Republican Donald Trump won North Carolina, capturing one of the seven heavily contested battlegrounds while votes in six ...

Sen. Deb Fischer is projected to defeat a challenge from independent Dan Osborn after an unusually competitive race.

The Nebraska Senate race has grown unexpectedly competitive as independent candidate Dan Osborn challenges Republican incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer.

While electing officials to make and enforce laws, voters in dozens of states are also deciding on more than 140 ballot proposals affecting the way people legally live, work and die.

All this has made a region that’s hundreds of miles from the nearest swing state a potential tipping point for the balance of ...