Category Archives: KLIN News
LPS Superintendent 'Respects' Teachers Who Exercise Right To Protest Reopening
The top education official for Lincoln Public Schools responds to the teachers protesting the decision to reopen schools with students in the classroom. “I respect that. I understand that,”...
Aug 05, 2020
Lancaster County Reports 16th COVID-19 Death
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department reports a 16th resident has died from COVID-19 in Lincoln. The individual was a man in his 70’s who had been hospitalized. Lancaster County reports...
Aug 04, 2020
Medicaid Expansion Opens for Applications
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has successfully started to accept applications for Medicaid expansion, also known as Heritage Health Adult, this past weekend. Benefits begin on O...
Aug 04, 2020
Local groups combine to Speak Up for Housing Rights To End Evictions
As federal unemployment insurance expires and eviction moratoriums lift, local civic, legal, education and arts organizations have combined to call on Lincoln residents to “Speak Up for Housing ...
Aug 04, 2020
Nebraska State Patrol Receives $1.28 Million Grant for Improved Truck Screening
U.S. Senator Deb Fischer, a member of the Senate Commerce Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety, released the following statement after the Nebraska State Patrol rece...
Aug 04, 2020
Fake Money Showing Up At Lincoln Businesses
Lincoln Police are looking into five cases where people tried to pass counterfeit bills. They were at businesses ranging from convenience stores, gas stations and restaurants between July 31st and Aug...
Aug 04, 2020
City Council Halts Applications For Halfway Houses To Find More Information, Regulation
The city of Lincoln instituted a 90-day moratorium on half-way house applications as leaders try to gather more information. The near-15-year-old special permit has received only two applications R...
Aug 04, 2020
Madsen's Bowling And Billiards vs City of Lincoln: Civil Case Moves To District Court
The owner of a Lincoln pool and bowling hall says he’s willing to go to jail after resisting to close his business for what city officials have said violated the latest directed health measure. ...
Aug 04, 2020
Black Lives Matter Supporters Voice Budget Concerns At Monday Hearing
A marathon meeting for Lincoln City Council Members spanned more than eight hours as demands to change the city’s budget raged. “Please fund libraries. Please fund your public. Please iden...
Aug 04, 2020
LPS Receives Thousands Of Remote Learning Requests For Fall 2020
Lincoln Public School officials announced Monday the unverified number of remote learning requests they received by the July 31 deadline. They received 6,771 requests to begin the school year remotely...
Aug 03, 2020