Sophia Anderson
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- Sep 29, 2026
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Omaha funeral home put on probation for illegal cremations (opens the original)
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The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office put Dorsey Funeral Home and Cremations on a two-year probation last week for 15 separate violations. In May 2025, the funeral home illegally cremated the remains of three unclaimed bodies as part of a training exercise. It was operating without a license when the cremations were carried out and did not have any of the required cremation authorizations or permits. The attorney general filed a petition for disciplinary action against the business on June 6, i
OPPD works to meet record demand for electricity (opens the original)
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Rapid growth in eastern Nebraska has created record demand for electricity. Omaha Public Power District, a publicly owned electricity provider that serves nearly half of Nebraska’s population, reported its highest demand for electricity ever this summer. On July 27, when the temperature reached 97 degrees and the heat index climbed to 120, OPPD customers used 3,285 megawatts of electricity. For context, if a typical American home were using multiple large appliances at once, 3,285 megawatts coul
An infusion of Army Corps funding helps Nebraska's once-struggling mesonet network (opens the original)
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Nebraska has nearly doubled the number of weather stations it uses to monitor critical climate and extreme weather data around the state. These stations, called mesonets, had their funding threatened in 2022, and the state was only able to maintain 55 mesonets over Nebraska’s 77,000 square miles. Thanks to an increase in funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers this year, the state now boasts 104 stations. Mesonets are made possible by a combination of public and private funding, including
Funds reinvested into three Nebraska Head Start programs (opens the original)
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Three Head Start programs in Nebraska will receive about $385,000 in recaptured funds, a portion of which are intended to meet goals created by the Trump administration’s Make American Healthy Again initiative. The funding reappropriated in Nebraska will go to the Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties, the Community Action Partnership of Western Nebraska and Educational Service Unit 13, which covers programs in Saunders and Lancaster counties as well as counties in west
Meet the Nebraska Navigator: The state’s websites have a new AI chatbot (opens the original)
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Nebraska state agencies deployed a new AI assistant to their websites on Tuesday. The chatbot, named “Nebraska Navigator,” was developed by Tyler Technologies, a company that designs AI tools specifically for state and local government agencies. State Auditor Mike Foley has raised issues with the state’s ongoing contracts with Tyler Technologies – even going as far as saying the company has held the state “hostage” to receive additional payments for online applications. Foley has argued before t
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