Jake Bartecki

1 week ago | southeast.newschannelnebraska.com | Jake Bartecki

LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska’s woodlands, prairies, waterways, and outdoors are bursting with life as yearly breeders and those passing through are in the Cornhusker state. Spring bird migration is well underway and Allison Johnson of UNL’s Biological Studies Department says Nebraskaa’s a good state for migration because the variety the central flyway provides. “Here in the midwest, we have this nice open space, there aren’t mountains,” Johnson said.

1 week ago | southeast.newschannelnebraska.com | Jake Bartecki

LINCOLN, Neb. - For just about any college football player, the end goal is to make it to the next level and that includes Kearney's own Heinrich Haarberg. The quarterback turned tight end is wrapping up his first spring practice with his new title and as he mentioned on a recent edition of the Doug & Daddy Show on ESPN Tri Cities, he felt like the transition was a necessary one in order to achieve his ultimate goal of the NFL. "It was an awesome transition honestly for me," Haarberg said.

1 week ago | southeast.newschannelnebraska.com | Jake Bartecki

LANCASTER County, Neb. - Deputies in southeast Nebraska made two arrests on Saturday after receiving reports of reckless driving. The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office said a woman called in three separate times to report a Ford pickup truck and an Infiniti driving recklessly, at high rates of speed and passing vehicles on the shoulder on I-80 west of Lincoln.

2 weeks ago | southeast.newschannelnebraska.com | Jake Bartecki

BEATRICE, Neb. - A radio station and high school in Southeast Nebraska are combining two valuables in experience and education. KWBE radio in Beatrice has been working with Beatrice High School to give students from a journalism class hands on experience to host a live, weekly radio show. “This is a program that KWBE and BHS administration talked about a few months ago, about the idea of giving students an opportunity to learn about radio and journalism,” Dave Niedfelt, KWBE Program Director said.

2 weeks ago | 1011now.com | Jake Bartecki

LINCOLN, Neb. (NCN) - If you’ve noticed seeing more of one certain mammal in Lincoln or another urban area of Nebraska, you’re not alone. Red Foxes have made homes in cities throughout the state and there’s multiple factors as to why. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wildlife Ecologist John Benson says one main reason, is diet. “Taxonomically, they’re carnivores, but they will eat other things,” Benson said. “They’ll eat berries, the;; eat human food which allows them to do well in a.