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Overview
The Omaha World-Herald is Nebraska's largest newspaper by circulation and the main paper for the Douglas County courts and the federal court in Omaha, and the Lincoln Journal Star covers the Capitol, the University of Nebraska and Lancaster County. The Grand Island Independent, the Kearney Hub, the North Platte Telegraph, the Scottsbluff Star-Herald, the Norfolk Daily News, the Columbus Telegram, the Fremont Tribune and the Hastings Tribune cover their regions, and the Nebraska Examiner covers state government online.
Nebraska newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for sheriff's sales, estates and government proceedings, publish obituaries for 93 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the state courts' JUSTICE case search.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Nebraska Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for Nebraska. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
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Major Nebraska newspapers and what they cover
The World-Herald covers Omaha, the Nebraska Supreme Court and, through its Lincoln bureau, the unicameral legislature, with back issues from the 1880s onward in the digital archives. The Journal Star covers Lincoln and state government, the Independent covers Hall County and central Nebraska, the Hub covers Kearney and the Tri-Cities, and the Star-Herald covers the Panhandle. Nebraska's county weeklies, from the Custer County Chief to the Wahoo Newspaper, carry county board proceedings, sheriff's reports and district court filings in full.
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Historic Nebraska newspapers online
Nebraska Newspapers, a partnership of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries and the Nebraska State Historical Society, offers free digitized Nebraska newspapers from the territorial era onward and contributes to Chronicling America. History Nebraska's library in Lincoln holds newspaper microfilm for every county, and the Omaha Public Library provides free access to the World-Herald archive with a library card. The Lincoln City Libraries do the same for the Journal Star.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Nebraska
Nebraska law requires sheriff's sale notices for foreclosures, notices to creditors in probate, name changes, tax sales and county board, city council and school board proceedings to be published in a legal newspaper in the county, and the Nebraska Press Association collects them in a statewide search. Nearly every Nebraska daily and most of the weeklies carry obituaries, and History Nebraska keeps obituary indexes. Court coverage pairs with the JUSTICE case search, which charges a small fee per search.
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Straight answers
Nebraska Newspaper Directory, questions
What is Nebraska's largest newspaper by circulation?
The Omaha World-Herald, followed by the Lincoln Journal Star, the Grand Island Independent, the Kearney Hub, the North Platte Telegraph and the Scottsbluff Star-Herald.
Where are historic Nebraska newspapers online?
Nebraska Newspapers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers free digitized titles from the territorial era onward, and Chronicling America adds more.
Where are Nebraska sheriff's sale notices published?
In a legal newspaper in the county where the property sits, collected in the Nebraska Press Association's statewide public notice search.