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Add a cool refreshing twist to your meals, beverages, appetizers, and snacks with cucumbers. These popular vegetables are grown worldwide, adding anti-inflammatory vitamin K, vitamins C, B-5 and more to your meals. Take it a step further by using your own freshfrom-the-garden cucumbers.

By Sara Rathner of NerdWallet Nothing sparks procrastination quite like a to-do list of financial tasks. Sometimes the only thing scarier than making a financial choice in the first place is making the WRONG choice, which can happen when you don't totally understand what you're doing.

LINCOLN--A bill currently in the Legislature would allow residents to purchase their fireworks in Nebraska rather than traveling to a neighboring state. Introduced by Sen.

Lincoln– April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) encourages all Nebraskans to take steps to prevent child abuse. To kickoff, Child Abuse Prevention Month in Nebraska DHHS, along with Bring Up Nebraska partners such as Nebraska Children and Families Foundation (NCFF) and First Lady Susanne Shore, hosted an event planting blue pinwheels in front of the Governor’s mansion on April 2.

Lincoln, April 2, 2021 — A webinar covering proposed tax changes to capital gains and the potential impact on agriculture will be presented by Nebraska Extension on Thursday at noon. Lawmakers have recently proposed new tax regulations on unrealized capital gains at death as well as the roll back of step-up basis on capital gains.

Lincoln, March 30, 2021 — An upcoming online training will teach participants how to recognize and respond to potential signs of crisis and suicidal behavior. Life can be stressful in the best of times.

COVID-19 disrupted both inperson learning and routine wellchild visits for many children over the last year. As a result, too many children have fallen behind on receiving recommended vaccines. We all want our kids to be back in school safely, and that means getting caught up on vaccines that were missed over the last year.

FARGO, ND (March 23, 2021) --Fatal wrong-way driving crashes on our nation’s highways are a persistent and devastating threat that is only getting worse. According to the latest data analysis from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, there were 2,008 deaths from wrong-way driving crashes on divided highways between 2015 and 2018, an average of approximately 500 deaths a year. That is up 34 percent from the 375 deaths annually from 2010 to 2014. Researchers found that the odds of being a wrong-way driver increased with alcohol-impairment, older age, and driving without a passenger.

On 03/16/2021 at 7:07 a.m., officers were called to the 200 block of East B Street for a disturbance. Following an investigation, a 27 year old female was arrested for domestic assault, criminal mischief and child abuse.

Easter is coming and it’s time to put up the tree. For those thinking right now that trees are for an entirely different Christian holiday, you are both right and wrong. Even though trees may be more widely associated with Christmas, Easter trees are an increasingly popular and festive tradition that trace their roots to Germany