Ten active TIF projects diverted $757,467 in North Platte property taxes in 2022, the equivalent of 1% of the combined $75.2 million tax request by the city's eight local governments.
Reconstruction is beginning this year with the stretch of Jeffers from Philip Avenue to Leota Street, to be followed in 2024 by the stretch from First Street to Philip.
The City Council split over finalizing two housing-related annexations and forwarding a "substandard and blighted" study, but members mostly united to back a housing subdivision just outside city limits.
Land toward North Platte’s east edge projected for housing two years ago is now being proposed for tax increment financing eligibility along with nearby industrial land.
Council members will be asked to approve a $2.485 million contract with Western Engineering Co. of Harlan, Iowa, which did the city’s last set of repaving projects in spring 2022.
Twenty-three bills introduced in January by western Nebraska senators became law in 2023, but 20 of those had to be tacked onto bills with similar subjects to break protracted filibusters.
Following are key 2023 Unicameral bills enacted by western Nebraska state senators, most of which were added to “Christmas tree” bills to win passage.
Lincoln County commissioners will consider selecting members for the new Inland Port Authority board of directors when they meet on Monday morning.
David City planner Keith Marvin led a Thursday kickoff meeting on updating North Platte's and Lincoln County's 2012 comprehensive development plans and his firm's 2018 city-county housing study.
The Lincoln County commissioners decided to look into providing its own wildlife services following a lengthy discussion at Monday’s regular meeting.
🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
During a round table discussion at Siouxland Christian, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott says he’d like to see education savings accounts and other “school choice” programs grow. Scott’s in the midst of his first campaign tour through Iowa since declaring his candidacy for the 2024 presidential…
The proposed Legends Subdivision, south of West State Farm Road and west of Buffalo Bill Avenue, would have an initial 18 lots and streets named for Nebraska Cornhusker football legends.
A $129.9 million bond issue easily passed in the Papillion-La Vista school district, while a $121 million bond issue won handily in the Omaha Westside district.
Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird beats former state Sen. Suzanne Geist in contentious race.
Take a look at the scene around Lincoln during the May 2 election day.
Leirion Gaylor Baird leads over Suzanne Geist in the unofficial final results of Lincoln 2023 General Election.
We reached out to candidates before Lincoln's city election and asked them to provide biographical information and answer questions relevant to the offices they seek.
Take a look at the scene at the Capitol Saturday where hundreds of Nebraska educators rallied against a bill that would provide tax incentives for donations to scholarship funds for private and faith-based schools.
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