Paul Bahnmaier is president of the Lecompton Historical Society which operates the Territorial Museum and other historic ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate left for its customary long weekend Thursday afternoon, following a brief three days in session despite the ongoing government shutdown. The House remained on an extended ...

Nebraska’s average ACT score among graduating seniors increased slightly in 2025, reversing a trend of declining scores. The sunsets as seen from Fairfield, Neb. on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. Nebraska's ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska students earned the highest composite score nationally compared with states that test all their students on the ACT exam that measures college readiness in English, ...

Travis Kelce is set to make Kansas City Chiefs history soon. Travis Kelce is closing in on an NFL record that hasn't been broken for 18 years. The Chiefs play the Lions next in Week 6. Kansas City is ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Nebraska woman says a jump meant to thrill visitors at one of Kansas City’s iconic haunted houses left her with two broken ankles, and now she’s suing the attraction, claiming it ...

Verenika was brought to Nebraska by Mennonite families who founded the town of Henderson. The Dutch Kitchen makes sure their heritage lives on with this recipe. The fall of 1877 was in the middle of ...

TOPEKA — University of Kansas indigenous studies director Alex Red Corn said a $1.5 million grant would allow a five-year collaboration with tribal nations and school districts in three states to ...

Established by Congress in 1854, the Nebraska Territory extended from the present-day state’s southeastern tip all the way to what is now the Idaho/Canada border in the northwest, the middle of North ...

A recent court ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, has led him to consider invoking the Insurrection Act, as he discussed with reporters ...