Margaret Reist

Christa Yoakum, a Democrat, is running for reelection to the Lancaster County Board's District 2 seat. Republican Jeremy Kuehn is challenging her.

About 138 acres northwest of Lincoln near Kawasaki Motors and Highland View neighborhood should be become industrial or commercial developments, not homes, the City Council decided.

Tweaking zoning ordinances to encourage local food production; all schools have Narcan; a new statue on the national historic register; and free passes for the bike share program.

During the 2019 floods, Lancaster County found itself with just five working dump trucks, out of a fleet of 23. Now they're updating their heavy equipment.

Pinnacle Bank Arena is getting a new $6 million scoreboard, updated wifi and some high-tech metal detectors now that it's passed the decade mark.

The City Council gave parks and recreation officials the authority to apply for a $600,000 matching grant to renovate Antelope Park into an up-to-date inclusive playground.

Restaurants, bars and off-sale businesses would no longer have to get a special permit to sell alcohol under a proposal by city planners, who say it would lessen bureaucracy.

The city will install cameras on light poles and traffic signals along Lincoln's O Street between 13th Street and Centennial Mall to evaluate curbside and traffic activity.

Lancaster County Election Commissioner Todd Wiltgen has mailed early vote-by-mail request forms to about 64,000 voters.

Quiet zone efforts for rail line in south Lincoln end; use of monitoring technology considered

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Parachutists jumped from World War II-era planes into now peaceful Normandy to kick off a week of ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Soldiers from across the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore through hails of fire on five beaches on June 6, 1944. French officials, grateful Normandy survivors and other admirers are saying “merci” but also goodbye to the fast-dwindling number of D-Day veterans still alive. (AP video by Nicolas Garriga/Production by…

Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded Rafah, after the government dismissed an order by the top UN court to halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city. Meanwhile Hamas claimed to have captured an Israeli soldier during fighting in northern Gaza and released video late Saturday showing a wounded man being dragged through a tunnel. Israel’s military denied any soldiers had been captured.

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The aftermath in Khan Younis after Israel’s ground invasion is something he had “never seen” in his time working on disposing of explosives.