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No online sports betting; Lincoln Bold on hold; NU baseball ranks top 25.

Nebraska voters wont weigh in on online sports gambling this year after the nations biggest sportsbooks opted not to back a ballot initiative campaign aimed at legalizing mobile sports betting.

Nebraska voters wont weigh in on online sports gambling this year after the nations biggest sportsbooks opted not to back a ballot initiative campaign aimed at legalizing mobile sports betting.

The Nebraska Winnebago Tribes Ho-Chunk Community Development Corporation has been awarded $2 million through MacKenzie Scotts Yield Giving company. Some 6,300 nonprofits applied to Yield Givings open call for grants the Ho-Chunk were among 279 to receive a top tier rating. In the next-highest tier, 82 organizations each received $1 million. ...

PROGRESS: Economic conditions on the Winnebago Reservation have shown marked improvements over the last three decades, according to a report released in December.

The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development has awarded Aaron LaPointe, an enrolled member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and business director at Ho-Chunk, Inc., its Native American

The states sports book operators in Lincoln, Omaha and Grand Island say they have seen increased betting activity leading up to the Super Bowl and expect that activity to increase.

A Native American advocacy group is making a big push to get out the Indigenous vote in this years elections. It is hiring field organizers across the state and turning to technology. Western Native Voice calls its initiative "No Vote Left Behind in 2024." The group is hiring 14 part-time organizers, on reservations and in urban areas. ...

By Rico Moore for Yes! Magazine.Broadcast version by Eric Tegethoff for Washington News Service reporting for the Yes! Magazine-Public News Service Collaboration The Kettle Mountain Range runs north-south along the eastern flank of the Colville Reservation and north into the Tribes’ ancestral territory in Colville National Forest. ...

/PRNewswire/ -- A new study on American Indian economic and social change describes a growing middle class on the rural Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska,...