![[SPECIAL OFFER] Get cozy with UNLIMITED digital!](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/theindependent.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/6/01/6016d761-5548-598a-933f-033ce81c439c/5fdc48fe913c8.image.png?crop=600%2C338%2C0%2C30&resize=600%2C338&order=crop%2Cresize)
Lowering the minimum age to 65 for Phase 1B could mean it will take four months to vaccinate everyone, a state official said.
CARES Act funds via the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services provided to meet those challenges and needs caused by the pandemic will expire after Thursday.
DHHS hosting virtual career opportunity fair Dec. 3
On Friday, Two Rivers issued warnings to residents of Kearney and Holdrege to stay home, stay masked and maintain social distancing in public.
The Two Rivers Public Health Department had 197 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 Friday, according to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.
That is the highest one-day number of new cases in Two Rivers since record-keeping began March 20.
Full-time, part-time and temporary on-call youth program specialist positions at the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center in Kearney will be available.
As of Tuesday morning, four COVID-19 patients were hospitalized at Kearney Regional Medical Center, and 14 were hospitalized at CHI Health Good Samaritan.
Gov. Pete Ricketts and Stefanie Beasley of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services should consider applying for the federal assis…
The contact tracing process is most successful when health officials get COVID-19 test results back within 48 hours, says Teresa Anderson of t…
Just five new cases of COVID-19 were reported Tuesday in the Two Rivers Public Health Department region.
Hastings leaders are applauding the Nebraska Legislature’s vote to delay moving girls from the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center at Ke…
Legislation to provide relief to rural health care workers is being introduced by Sen. Ben Sasse.
Should male and female juvenile offenders in Nebraska be kept on separate campuses?
What is the role of DHHS Children and Family Services supposed to be? Wouldn’t it be ideal if DHHS was there to support childcare facilities a…
How to handle young people who get in trouble with the law is a matter with which states throughout the country have struggled.
An independent assessment will be conducted by a private vendor on the South Pine Street building housing the Department of Health and Human S…
Hall County has no intention of moving the Department of Health and Human Services from its location on South Pine Street.
The building that houses the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services in Grand Island was found to not be in compliance with the Ameri…
An assessment on a building occupied by the Department of Health and Human Services in Grand Island will hopefully clear up concerns about its…
The Hall County Board of Supervisors is responding to what members say would be a financial burden if expectations are that the county would p…
Hall County Attorney Jack Zitterkopf will draft a letter to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services in regard to the DHHS buildin…
The Hall County Facilities Committee will meet with Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services officials about the DHHS building at 116 …
According to a letter sent to the Hall County Board of Supervisors, the Department of Health and Human Services building at 116 S. Pine is not…
A pilot program that was launched in Grand Island last year to help people on Nebraska’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will…
