By Erin Bamer | Reporter
In an echo of what happened in Lincoln, Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers is suing the city of Omaha to enforce Nebraska’s minimum wage law against the city’s new ordinance that seeks to maintain a 2022 voter-approved annual adjustment to the minimum wage based on inflation, starting at $15.
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers. Oct. 9, 2025. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
By Zach Wendling
LINCOLN — Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers on Tuesday announced he is suing the City of Omaha to enforce Nebraska’s minimum wage law against its new city ordinance.
Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts Mike Foley testifies before the Legislature’s Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. Feb. 5, 2026. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)
HEALTH
By Cindy Gonzalez
LINCOLN — The top administrator of Nebraska’s first designated “rural emergency hospital” has resigned amid financial abuse allegations from the state auditor that he used hospital funds for “lavish personal entertainment.”
Framed pictures at the Omaha Nebraska Democratic Party office on April 3, 2026. (Juan Salinas II/ Nebraska Examiner)
ELECTION 2026
By Juan Salinas II
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Democratic Party will decide at a state central committee meeting this week whether to fill a vacancy caused by its U.S. Senate candidate dropping out.
A crane on the construction site of the planned White House ballroom, where the East Wing used to be, during the early morning of Thursday, June 11, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
D.C. BUREAU
By Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — Historic preservationists asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to deny President Donald Trump’s appeal to continue construction on his $400 million White House ballroom on the grounds of the demolished East Wing.
Federal investigators search through bushes outside a house in Rhode Island. Violent crime in the United States fell by an estimated 9.3% in 2025. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
PUBLIC SAFETY
By Amanda Watford
Violent crime in the United States fell by an estimated 9.3% in 2025, marking the largest year-to-year decline in the national violent crime rate since the FBI began estimating crime in 1936, according to new national data.
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
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