WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it expects to award up to four cooperative agreements for flood hazard identification and risk assessment programs in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $18 million. The agency said the grant was associated with disaster prevention and relief. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district go  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on the alternative measures of labor underutilization in Nebraska for 2019: In 2019, the broadest measure of labor underutilization, designated U-6 (which includes the unemployed, workers employed part time for economic reasons, and those marginally attached to the labor force), was 6.2 percent in Nebraska, not significantly different from the  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 7 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on the business employment dynamics in Nebraska for 2nd quarter 2019: From March 2019 to June 2019, gross job gains in opening and expanding private-sector establishments in Nebraska totaled 46,984, while gross job losses in closing and contracting private-sector establishments numbered 46,493, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Ass  more

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, March 5 -- The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a proposed rule, published in the Federal Register on March 5, entitled: "Air Plan Approval; Nebraska; Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department (LLCHD); Reopening of the Comment Period and Availability of Supplemental Information". The proposed rule was issued by James Gulliford, Regional Administrator, Region 7. DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule, published on January 3, 2020 (85 FR 274), is reopen  more

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Nebraska, March 7 -- The U.S. Air Force (55th Air Wing) issued the following news: The 55th Security Forces Squadron's National Airborne Operation Center Security section and three Federal Air Marshals conducted a joint two-day anti-terrorism training March 2 and 3, 2020. This is the first joint training for Offutt defenders and the federal air marshal service. FAMS has been in existence for almost 70 years and holds the highest firearms qualification standards of all U.  more

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Nebraska, March 3 -- The U.S. Air Force (55th Air Wing) issued the following news: The Navy Operational Support Center is one of team Offutt's outstanding partner units and home to 11 active-duty sailors who provide training and administrative support for more than 250 Navy Reservists in Nebraska and Western Iowa to ensure they are deployable assets. The NOSC's mission is to generate mobilization readiness by providing administrative services, training support, medical,   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, March 7 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska made history last year after being the first Tribe from the State of Nebraska to make a direct disaster declaration to the President of the United States, approved on June 17, 2019. In 2013, the Sandy Recovery and Improvement Act (P.L. 113-2) amended the Stafford Act to provide federally recognized tribes with the authority t  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating funding to Nebraska from Section 7721 of the Plant Protection Act as part of its effort to strengthen the nation's infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system. Overall, USDA is providing almost $70 million   more