17+ hour, 9+ min ago   (164+ words) Star-Herald Javascript is required to use this website. A proposed policy on staff use of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and Claude will get its first public airing on Monday. The same night, the Gering school board could finalize…...

17+ hour, 8+ min ago   (158+ words) Just two months after the Scottsbluff City Council heard from a packed chamber of citizens opposed to a strip club locating within the community, the Gering City Council will consider an ordinance to limit such businesses in that neighboring community....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (217+ words) A year after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a college rally in Utah, his alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is facing a capital murder trial. Robinson has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder charges in…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (255+ words) Before becoming Nebraska’s governor three years ago, Jim Pillen built a multimillion-dollar hog enterprise. Casting himself as a conservative businessman who would grow the state’s economy, he defeated a Trump-backed candidate in the Republican primary. The pitch to bring the…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (133+ words) President Donald Trump has intensified his attacks on Democrats, accusing the party of electing “jihadists” and linking progressive candidates to communism and Islamic extremism WASHINGTON — Republican Vice President JD Vance called Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim and a Democrat running for…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (145+ words) MOSCOW — North Korea and Russia opened their first road bridge Monday in a carefully choreographed display of friendship, a structure that spans the Tumen river and which both sides cast as an important milestone in their deepening strategic partnership. Russia…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1528+ words) LINCOLN — Two candidates to become Nebraska's next chief elections officer said they agree with Gov. Jim Pillen and departing Secretary of State Bob Evnen, Republicans who pushed last week to remove what they called the "bounty" paid to people collecting…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (962+ words) “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has started the process of freezing her eggs — and is using a vlog on Instagram to give her lefty fans mundane updates such as her taking hormonal injections. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), 36, revealed in a weekend post that…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (122+ words) Current and former election officials said it would take something short of "an act of God" for their states and localities to comply with a new U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rule just weeks before the midterm elections. The lawsuit argues…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (148+ words) As the United States reshapes its global ambitions and trade alliances, this could have broad implications – and potentially even benefits – for China. Centre for Strategic Statecraft co-founder and CEO Vina Nadjibulla breaks it down. Google Maps changed the name of…...