Planting pace across many parts of Nebraska is ahead of schedule. Northeast Nebraska farmer Anne Meis tells Brownfield, “This is the earliest we started planting. We started on April 10.” The latest ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has recently denied disaster requests in other states, including Arkansas, where tornadoes caused widespread damage and three deaths.

Jim Pillen has requested a major federal disaster declaration for 27 Nebraska counties related to a March winter storm that disaster response officials estimate did more than $64.9 million in damage.