Noelle Annonen
Multimedia Reporter
Noelle Annonen joined Nebraska Public Media in 2026. She got her start as a print reporter covering local government in Massachusetts before joining public radio as a general assignment reporter in Birmingham, Alabama. Her reporting focuses include law and policy, criminal justice, and environment. In her spare time, Noelle can be found spinning, jumping and falling on ice rinks.
Recent News Stories
- Department of Correctional Services projects running at full steam, despite state budget cuts
- Property tax relief swamps all other state spending in Nebraska
- Lindstrom appears to have enough signatures to run for Nebraska governor
- Nebraska becomes first state to disenroll Medicaid recipients under new work requirements
- County commissioner receives death threats after data center vote, recall not expected until January
- Nebraska Chamber, immigrant advocacy group talk immigration policy and workforce solutions
- Lawmakers eyeing state’s cash reserve as budget hole grows to $200 million
- Gage County residents push for board to approve data center moratorium
- Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission adds specific regulations, including licensing fees
- Pillen ends tax incentives for data center developers building in Nebraska
- Twelfth Nebraska county temporarily bans data centers
- Nebraska’s tax receipts come in below projections for fourth month in a row
- Cass County moves closer to moratorium on data centers
- Nebraska senators divided over Pillen’s call for more budget cuts
- Will caps lower Nebraska property taxes? Think tank execs weigh
- Program intended to create Nebraska jobs does not pay for itself, report finds
- Judge delays temporary injunction against Lincoln's minimum wage ordinance
- Data centers are eyeing Nebraska. Here’s how counties are responding
- More nationally funded anti-Trump billboards launching in Lincoln, Omaha
- Seward County becomes latest Nebraska county to put moratorium on data centers
- No longer affordable: Nebraskans say rent costs are a major stressor
- Nebraska’s gubernatorial candidates raking in fundraising ahead of general election
- Nebraska’s medical marijuana regulations are set to expire before commission’s next opportunity to renew them
- K-9 comfort: How a pair of golden labs help support crime victims in Nebraska courtrooms
- Gage County Planning and Zoning Commission recommends 18-month moratorium on data centers