Nebraska
Nebraska Broadband Office says providers on track to connect state by end of the decade
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – The Nebraska Broadband Office painted a positive picture for the future of internet access in the state at a public hearing on Wednesday afternoon.
It can be hard to even get out to parts of Nebraska’s grassy hinterlands, so imagine the strain of stringing miles and miles of fiber optic cable into an underground web, building a bridge between distant ranchers and the online world.
“I’ve talked about that for about the past eight years,” Nebraska State Sen. Bruce Bostelman said. “There’s a a critical need.”
Bostelman knows the problem all too well.
“Where I live, 32 miles from here, in order to do business, we either have to have satellite or, you know, direct line, mobile hotspot,” Bostelman said. “We don’t have high speed Internet.”
The issue is fairly simple to diagnose.
“Cost, cost,” Patrick Haggerty, the Nebraska State Broadband director, said. “It always boils down to cost.”
The solution, Haggerty said, proved a little more elusive. That is, until a wave of federal dollars cascaded in, spurring the state to create the office Haggerty runs.
“You get into parts of Nebraska, and there, houses are 10 to 15 miles apart,” Haggerty said. “So you’re you’re you’re building 30 miles of network for two houses as opposed to three miles of network for 1000. So the cost basis for the private providers just isn’t there without subsidy.”
Haggerty’s office, administering more than $400 million in federal support through the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program, gives out that subsidy: 75% for projects where broadband providers expand access to unserved or underserved customers. Haggerty said that as of July of last year, 110,000 customers fell into those two categories. At Wednesday’s hearing in the Capitol, he said the number is down to 70,000.
Haggerty said, if cost and timeline projections hold, those 70,000 locations will be hooked up to high-speed internet by the 2029.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re on the eastern side of state or the western side of state. We have the same problem,” Bostelman said. “And if Nebraska is going to grow the economy, then it needs to grow. And if we want young people to stay, all across the state of Nebraska, we have to have high speed internet because that’s where things are in business.”
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The results are in for the Nebraska Lottery’s draw games on Sunday, March 1, 2026.
Here’s a look at winning numbers for each game on March 1.
Winning Pick 3 numbers from March 1 drawing
7-6-5
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Winning Pick 5 numbers from March 1 drawing
04-20-28-30-39
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Winning 2 By 2 numbers from March 1 drawing
Red Balls: 02-10, White Balls: 25-26
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Winning MyDay numbers from March 1 drawing
Month: 11, Day: 28, Year: 38
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Winning Millionaire for Life numbers from March 1 drawing
10-11-12-35-56, Bonus: 04
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When are the Nebraska Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 9:59 p.m. CT Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 10 p.m. CT on Tuesday and Friday.
- Pick 3, 5: By 10 p.m. CT daily.
- Lucky For Life: 9:38 p.m. CT daily.
- 2 By 2: By 10 p.m. CT daily.
- MyDaY: By 10 p.m. CT daily.
- Lotto America: 9:15 p.m CT Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
- Millionaire for Life: 10:15 p.m. CT daily.
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Courtesy Nebraska Athletics
The third matchup this weekend between No. 9 Nebraska and No. 21 Oklahoma State was canceled Sunday due to expected bad weather in the Stillwater, Okla., area. The Cowgirls won the first matchup Thursday, 2-1 in 11 innings, while the Cornhuskers won Saturday, 4-3. The game will not be made up.
Nebraska now prepares for its home opener Thursday at Bowlin Stadium as the Huskers take on South Dakota State in a doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m.
MINDEN, Neb. (KSNB) – The Nebraska State Patrol, with assistance from the Kearney County Sheriff’s Office and Kearney County Attorney’s Office, is investigating an attempted murder/suicide in rural Kearney County.
The Kearney County Sheriff’s Office was called to the scene Saturday afternoon.
According to NSP, three children and a woman had gunshot wounds, with the woman found dead.
The three children were transported by ambulance to Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney and treated for their injuries. Two of the children have since been transported to Children’s Hospital in Omaha.
NSP said all three children are expected to survive. The children are all under the age of 12.
This investigation is ongoing. Law enforcement said there is no ongoing threat to the public.
According to NSP, names are not being released at this time to protect the identities of the victims.
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