Douglas, Senator from Illinois and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories, pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Congress in 1854. Because most of the Western territories lay north of ...

As a part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the United States Congress appropriated $5,000 to establish law libraries in both states. In 1855, the Nebraska Territorial Library was founded in Omaha.

Nebraska last season celebrated a no-hitter against Kansas State. This time the Wildcats walked away with a no-doubt victory. Husker pitching served up a steady diet of hits and free passes while ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Senate voted to override Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of the “Help Not Harm Act.” The Kansas Senate voted 31-9 to override the governor’s veto of Senate ...

Nebraska baseball's offense took awhile to wake up while the pitching got shelled all game. Not a good combination. Kansas State beat Nebraska 9-6 on the final day of the Frisco College Baseball ...

Thousands of state employees who once worked in office buildings in Kansas’ capital and frequented downtown businesses for lunch and happy hour now work from home all or part of the time.

with the highest snowfall amounts coming along the Kansas/Nebraska border, Flanagan said. Still, "blizzard conditions" will be possible in those areas because of the anticipated strong winds ...

He said the Destination Nebraska Act allows for the establishment of two “destination sites” in the state that in time could create jobs and draw big tourism dollars. While Yates is not ...

But in an op-ed published in the Omaha World-Herald on Sunday, a U.S. senator and Nebraska’s chief law enforcement officer urged state senators not to act on any medical marijuana legislation ...