$500,000 in funding for food and nutrition security has been given by Medica to five different states, including Nebraska.

Week of Wellness started Monday at Chadron State College, a new campus wellness collaborative initiative coordinated by Campus Wellness Officer Dr. Britt Helmbrecht.

Nebraska’s latest 'tax-cutting spree' will result in the some of the deepest reductions in revenue in the nation, threatening state services, according to a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.

Kiersten Black of Sidney certainly isn’t the only Nebraska teenager to hunt big game this fall. She has, however, harvested an animal in the state that none of the others can claim — a bighorn sheep.

Nebraska is once again a blue state, as Creighton avenged last years upset loss in Omaha with an 89-60 win over the Huskers in Lincoln.

Juliana Aragon scored 23 points and two others scored in double-digits, pushing the New Mexico Highlands Cowgirls past CSC Saturday night, 60-47 in Las Vegas, New Mexico.