Matthew Hansen

Before becoming governor, Jim Pillen grew Nebraska's biggest hog empire. A year-long collaboration between the Flatwater Free Press and Investigate Midwest sought to tell the story. How he did it. And how it impacted Nebraskans.

I can’t tell you how disappointed I am to report what follows, but it’s news you deserve to know and need to understand. As you may know, the Nebraska

In its first full year of publication, FFP bested all newspapers and nonprofit newsrooms in an 8-state region to win three Great Plains Journalism Awards, awarded May 5 in Tulsa.

Pretend for a moment that Nebraska somehow halted all use of nitrogen fertilizer – not a single speck more on our lawns, golf courses and corn

WALTHILL-The children of the Omaha Reservation begin descending on the town park in late afternoon. They arrive unannounced in twos and threes on a recent Monday, cluster in…

Earnest Jackson is innocent and should be released from prison, say two family members of the man he’s convicted of murdering. Their public support of

He sits solitary on the front porch of the most famous literary home in Nebraska, bundled in a purple ski jacket to endure the too-cold April morning. The

Boone County has raised an estimated $14 million – almost all local donations – to build projects including an aquatic center, a walking trail, a theater, an endowment and many more. It's proof that small towns can build a better future if residents quite literally invest in making that future possible.

As William Kieler struggled to breathe, as he grew woozy and unresponsive, as they hooked him up to machines to shove air into his lungs, the worried

Nebraska homesteaders were poor and poorer, Catholic and Protestant, European and American. And almost uniformly white. Except for the homesteaders who

This summer, vaccination in Nebraska has morphed into a public health version of hand-to-hand combat, where medical providers go person-to-person, holding intensely personal conversations and trying to correct rampant vaccine misinformation. In some places, like South Omaha, this is happening widely. And it’s working.

Mark Rupp has grown numb to people telling him he’s wrong, yelling that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, when he encourages them to get the