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LINCOLN — Nebraska’s chief information officer, Matthew McCarville, has resigned after serving in the role since 2024. The position is part of Gov. Jim Pillen’s cabinet. The announcement from the Governor’s Office came the day after the general election where voters reelected Pillen to another four years. Pillen…
Powell’s victory in Nebraska's most politically divided and diverse congressional district was part of a historic night for Democrats
LINCOLN — Voters in Nebraska’s capital city widely favored ending off-year elections after 2029 and limiting Lincoln City Council members to two consecutive four-year terms. Lincoln voters saw five city charter amendments on their ballot. Of those, the conservative-led Good Government Lincoln campaign and the blue…
LINCOLN — Voters across Nebraska favored keeping all 48 of the judges who faced up-or-down votes on remaining in office for an additional six years, keeping alive a 16-year streak of no booted jurists. Depending on the county where they live, Nebraska voters saw at least two judges or as many as 15 on their
Nebraska Examiner reporters and student journalists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and University of Nebraska Omaha captured these moments Tuesday at polling places and candidates’ events.
LINCOLN — Nebraskans chose five new faces for the State Board of Education and University of Nebraska Board of Regents in seven races across the state Tuesday. Conservatives are on the verge of flipping a key seat and shifting the ideologically 4-4 State Board of Education red. The NU Board of Regents is set to shift
Ahead of the midterms, Democrats wargamed dozens of scenarios looking at how President Donald Trump might try to undermine the election, everything from seizing voting machines to falsely declaring a foreign attack. But when the blue tsunami arrived Tuesday night, Trump seemed to let it wash right over him. In a…
OMAHA — A 33-seat Republican supermajority in the Nebraska Legislature will end come 2027 as Democrats and a Democratic-endorsed nonpartisan led in three key districts by Wednesday afternoon. Twenty-five seats were before voters Tuesday, including a special election for a two-year term in the officially nonpartisan…