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Natalia Alamdari is an FFP senior reporter and the Seacrest Greater Nebraska reporter. Since 2021, her reporting has taken her across Nebraska, where she has told stories on contentious board meetings in Brownville, quinceañera shops in Columbus and bison in the Sandhills. She's also traveled to Poland to tell the stories of displaced Ukrainian refugees. Her reporting on Nebraska prisons won a 2023 Great Plains Journalism Award. Previously, Alamdari worked at newspapers in Missouri, Texas and Delaware. Working at the Flatwater Free Press is a return to Nebraska — in college, she spent a summer interning at the Omaha World-Herald. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and native Texan.

Posted inGreater Nebraska

Mr. President goes to Wilber: Kolaches baked, polka played as Czech leader visits ‘Czech Capital of US’ 

by Natalia AlamdariOctober 2, 2026October 13, 2026

President Petr Pavel’s visit to Wilber was a historic first for the town. Dressed in their Czech best, they gave him the grand tour. 

A home built through the Pawnee City Community Foundation sits for sale. The house is part of a program in which buyers can qualify for up to $60,000 in down payment assistance. Photo by Lily Smith/Flatwater Free Press
Posted inGreater Nebraska

Pawnee City offered $50,000 if a person bought a house in town. So far, they’ve had one taker.

by Natalia AlamdariSeptember 4, 2026September 16, 2026
Posted inStatewide

Priced out of The Good Life: For young Nebraskans, homeownership grows increasingly out of reach 

by Natalia AlamdariJuly 31, 2026August 18, 2026
The feature-length documentary “Reunion ’61-’76” chronicled Beatrice High’s 15-year reunion in 1976. After airing on Nebraska public television that year, the film largely vanished. Now, 50 years later, The Ross in Lincoln will screen the film on July 29.
Posted inStatewide Newsletter

Big-screen reunion; Food only for citizens; Kearney hotelier

by Natalia AlamdariJuly 17, 2026September 30, 2026
Bull riding is the final event at Sumner and many other rodeos. The bull won this matchup July 4 by bucking off Sutton Schrunk of Valentine.
Posted inStatewide Newsletter

Rodeo roundup; Cops and questions; Thirsty data centers

by Natalia AlamdariJuly 10, 2026September 30, 2026
A bur oak tree stands at Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City on April 16. It’s a potential contender for the state’s Champion Tree Register.
Posted inStatewide Newsletter

Tree huggers; Goodbye Big Snap; A Gutted Education Bill

by Natalia AlamdariApril 24, 2026September 30, 2026
Posted inStatewide

‘Not an easy place to be a tree’: The hunt for Nebraska’s biggest trees 

by Natalia AlamdariApril 24, 2026May 13, 2026
Dorothy Lynch, made by a real human named Dorothy Lynch, was first tasted in a small Nebraska town in 1952.
Posted inStatewide Newsletter

Neon-orange dreams; sinking feeling; greetings from Kearney

by Natalia AlamdariApril 10, 2026September 30, 2026
Cohen Mahrt, 2, plays with a toy truck as his mother Kirsten makes coffee at their Lincoln home on Wednesday. Mahrt has had to navigate two child care provider closures in a matter of months.
Posted inStatewide Newsletter

Child care conundrum; fishy business; prediction profits

by Natalia AlamdariMarch 20, 2026September 30, 2026
Posted inMetro, Statewide

This Nebraska company is supplying ICE with surveillance tech

by Natalia AlamdariFebruary 20, 2026March 11, 2026

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