The Department of Health and Human Services is asking lawmakers for an additional $2.1 million to help pay telephone-serv...

Governor Dave Heineman Monday proclaimed November as Adoption Awareness Month for the state of Nebraska.It spotlights childre...

Call centers that handle requests for food stamps, Medicaid and other public benefits are understaffed. Nebraska's Child ...

The number of children labeled as wards of the state has dropped by more than 300 since March, about the time Thomas Pristow ...

Nebraska's troubled effort to privatize its child welfare services could cost the state $3.2 million in federal money...

Nebraska's educational system is gearing up to meet a new challenge: Helping Wards of the State do better in school. A ne...