Herald op-ed, Democratic candidate Chris Backemeyer makes his pitch to voters in Nebraska's 1st Congressional District.

Nebraska voters are casting ballots for governor, Senate and the state’s three US House seats. Contests for governor, Senate and two House seats could be competitive, according to ratings from the Cook Political Report.

Lynne Walz, Democratic candidate for Nebraska governor, names Nebraska farmer Ben Steffen as her running mate and the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor. FREMONT, Neb. — The best job Lynne Walz ever had came right after she graduated from high school.

In this final stretch of the US midterm elections, Democrats and independents could win back communities and towns across America’s rural heartlands through a combination of resurgent “prairie populism”, local despair over the impact of Donald Trump’s agenda and an old-fashioned tenet of shoe-leather politics: showing up everywhere. When Dan Osborn rolled into one of the most rural counties in Nebraska earlier this month, he started walking into...

Five charter amendments could change how Lincoln conducts elections. Here's what voters should know before heading to the polls Nov. 3.

As they look to win the Senate, Democrats are hoping that independent candidates in Nebraska and Montana can help them topple Republicans in a part of the country where their own brand is hurting.

Rachael Nelson, a former leader of the Nebraska Libertarian Party, speaks during a town hall with Dan Osborn, nonpartisan candidate for U.S. Senate, at University of Nebraska at Omaha, in