LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — As Nebraska lawmakers prepare to end their legislative session, many of the most high-profile bills have fallen by the wayside but are likely to emerge again next year.

Lawmakers whose bills stalled say they plan to work on their proposals after the session in hopes of trying again next session.

Measures that are likely to return include legislation to help the state collect online sales taxes, allow teachers to physically restrain students, require voter ID and hold a constitutional convention to impose fiscal restraint on the federal government.

Many of the measures were debated this year but stalled when it became clear they didn’t have enough support to pass.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific railroad is planning a number of events over the next two years to celebrate the effort to build the first transcontinental railroad.

The events will lead up to the 150th anniversary of when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads were joined together on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit in Utah.

The railroad will hold numerous events in communities all along the route between Omaha, Nebraska, and Sacramento, California.

The Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad also put together a special website with history and details of the events at www.up.com/goldenspike.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A legume that is generally considered a fringe crop in Nebraska has taken root in the state.

The yellow field pea has been growing in popularity with dry-land farmers who practice no-till farming in the semiarid region west of North Platte.

In recent years, peas have gone from being planted on only a few Nebraska farms to covering about 55,000 acres in 2016. Last year was the first year the crop got popular enough in Nebraska to be included in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service reports

New Alliance farmer Mark Watson says one downside to peas is how much yields can vary due to adverse weather.

USDA figures show Nebraska farmers planned to plant 45,000 acres of peas this year.

BAYARD, Neb. (AP) — The installation of four new LED lights at Nebraska’s Chimney Rock will have nighttime drivers along Highways 92 or 26 noticing an even brighter landmark in the distance.

Finishing touches and focusing of the lights were completed on May 8. Travelers report they could see the outline of Chimney Rock 10 miles to the west on Highway 92.

Drivers could see the illuminated spire passing along the route that was originally the Oregon Trail since floodlights were first installed in the early 1980s.

The project to improve the lighting started in November when Bayard City Clerk Nate Heffron began rallying support to complete the work. The more than $12,000 cost was covered within 60 days.

Colored lenses can also be used for the holidays.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — State officials report that the new veterans home being built at Kearney is nearly half finished.

Construction on the 225-bed, 330,000-square-foot Central Nebraska Veterans’ Home began April 1, 2016.

Fred Zarate, an architect with the State Building Division, says 45 percent of the work is done and that the $89.7 million project remains on schedule to open in the fall of 2018.

Zarate says half of the homes on the campus are up and have roofs.

The campus will have six neighborhoods, each with three homes with 12 to 15 veterans per home living in private rooms. There will be a special-care unit, a skilled-care unit and an independent living area.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal appellate judges questioned Nebraska prosecutors’ push to place a teenage boy on the state’s sex offender registry during arguments this week.

Arguments in the appeal by Nebraska prosecutors were held Wednesday in Omaha’s federal courthouse before a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office appealed last year after a federal judge blocked the state from putting a then-13-year-old boy who moved to Nebraska from Minnesota on its public list of sex offenders.

State officials determined the boy had to register when he moved to Nebraska, because state law says all sex offenders who move to Nebraska must register.