An Omaha company would get incentives for training home-based "teleworkers" in rural Nebraska and areas of high poverty, under a legislative bill advanced easily on Wednesday.

Candidate positions on prenatal care legislation will be considered when Nebraska Right to Life hands out its endorsements next month.

Over the past 14 months the state has received about $25,000 from companies considering putting up wind farms on the state-owned land that is set aside for funding education.

Parents will probably have to wait a little longer before putting their kids into kindergarten. On Thursday, lawmakers gave final-round approval to a bill (LB1006) that would push forward by 75 days the age-cutoff date at which children could enter kindergarten. Gov. Dave Heineman must sign the bill for it to become law.

The combination of falling snow, ice jams and continued melting snow raised flooding concerns across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa today.

Nebraska farmers probably won't have to worry about their crop checkoff dollars being used to help solve the state's water problems.

Omaha Sen. Scott Lautenbaugh's bill (LB836) would give the Game and Parks Commission more flexibility in setting special seasons to reduce deer numbers where they are damaging crops and endangering motorists.

A bill to repeal in-state tuition for some illegal immigrants is stuck in a legislative committee, but Nebraska lawmakers might get a chance to debate and vote on the issue anyway.

Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.

GRETNA, Neb. -- The Nebraska Department of Roads is going to great lengths to keep deer from crossing Interstate 80 near the Platte River between Lincoln and Omaha.

OMAHA, Neb. - Seventeen people were in federal custody Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation of a Fremont meatpacking plant by immigration officials, authorities said.