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Nebraska state senators filed dozens more bills on Thursday, their seventh day in session. Lawmakers filed 73 pieces of legislation Thursday, including one amendment proposal. Here’s a quick look at which senators have submitted bills on Day 7: Below is a look at a few bills that caught our attention on Thursday: State Sen.

According to First Alert 6 meteorologists, at this point in the season, the metro is seeing it’s second lowest snow total on record.

USA Crits organisers amplified the reach for the one-day US race series by adding three events to their 2025 lineup, now nine races in five states. The series, in a 16th season, focuses on established events in the south-east with a points-based calendar compressed into seven weeks.

A Columbus woman was sentenced Thursday in federal court for selling counterfeit items through an online storefront.

If every state adopted Nebraska’s unique system of awarding its Electoral College votes for president — which provides one electoral vote to the winner in each congressional district and two per state to the overall winner — President-elect Donald Trump would have still won the White House.

The Omaha Supernovas will be leaving the Pro Volleyball Federation at the end of the 2025 season to start a new indoor league.

The state's overall average temperature for the year of 52.7 degrees ranked as the second-hottest ever recorded, trailing only 54 degrees in 2012.

Prewett may have preferred following his nose around the yard to playing a game of fetch, but that didn’t stop him from frequently checking in to get plenty of treats and pets.

The Lincoln-Lancaster Health Department reported the avian influenza has been found in a wastewater sample. The sample was taken from the Northeast Water Resource Recovery Facility. WasteWaterSCAN has been testing samples nationwide since May 2024, including from two sites in Lincoln.

Here’s where the Nebraska, Creighton and Omaha men and women landed in the NCAA's latest NET rankings:

In 2024, the total revenue for the state’s four casinos jumped to $145.7 million with WarHorse Lincoln leading the pack.