LINCOLN, Neb. — Twenty-eight soldiers serving in the Nebraska Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 134th Infantry Regiment, jumped from a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the Alaska Air National Guard’s 144th Airlift Squadron during training Sept. 29 taking off from Lincoln Airport and landing at Husker Drop Zone near Mead, Nebraska. “This was the first […]
“Charles Herbster’s behavior is completely unacceptable for anyone, especially someone seeking a public office of authority and trust,” said every female Nebraska state senator, including five Republicans. Eight women including a Republican state senator have come forward to accuse Charles Herbster—a front-runner in Nebraska’s GOP gubernatorial primary who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump—of sexual […]
Indigenous rights groups and climate action campaigners credited their years-long effort to block the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline with securing the latest legal victory against TC Energy on Wednesday after a federal judge in Montana invalidated a water-crossing permit needed to build the pipeline. Judge Brian Morris ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers […]
Next month, Nebraska’s state liquor commission will decide the fate of the tiny but notorious town of Whiteclay, population 12, whose livelihood depends on selling beer—more than 12,000 cans a day, mostly to vulnerable Lakota natives from the nearby Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, which sits only about 60 meters away, over the border in South […]