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Keven Lightner is in the intensive care unit while battling COVID-19.

The City Council is poised to push forward with an emergency mask mandate. But will it have the votes?

When OPS students return to school this year, some of the teachers they expect to see in the classroom won’t be there.

Nebraska and Iowa have released their weekly unemployment claim update.

A semi-truck has flipped off the Interstate-80 eastbound ramp onto the Interstate-680 southbound ramp.

Here is a summary of new cases and other COVID-19 stats reported today by health officials across Nebraska & Iowa.

This week the Sarpy County Board of Commissioners approved a new schematic design.

Judge hears arguments in City V. Madsen’s.

Omaha Police officers swarmed a home near 37th and Dodge Streets around 1:30 a.m. Thursday after a reported home invasion, according to investigators.

When schools closed down in March because of the Coronavirus Amy Cullum thought her teacher supplies store, Apples and More, was going to close for good. But in recent weeks, as teachers get ready to head back to their classrooms, business has been good.

A high school graduation party had to be postponed but not because of coronavirus. A contractor not only didn’t finish a patio project on time, but he left a big mess.

The coronavirus pandemic is moving through the Douglas County Jail impacting both staff and inmates. The latest numbers released by the corrections department shows that nearly 100 people have been infected since the pandemic began.

Nelson Mandela is a year-round school, and about half of their students returned to class in July to finish out their term.

Omaha’s hardest hit community is on the verge of losing its Covid-19 test site. Upwards of 300 people a day are being tested at the 50th and G streets test site in South Omaha; and unless some quick action is taken it will soon end.

The Nebraska Humane Society is reminding everyone how easily pets can be exposed to the Rabies virus following the death of a puppy who got ahold of a bat.

Here is a summary of new cases and other COVID-19 stats reported today by health officials across Nebraska & Iowa.

Mayor Jean Stothert will be making an announcement during a news conference planned for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A proposal to outlaw a second-trimester abortion procedure has cleared a major hurdle in the Nebraska Legislature, a signal that it could pass in the final days of this year’s session.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says she will sign an executive order granting convicted felons the right to vote, ending Iowa’s place as the only remaining state to broadly deny voting rights to felons.

It’s a summertime staple that allows kids to flex their entrepreneurial skills; lemonade stands. Every summer, JD Lightfoot takes to the street corner and sets up his stand.

Each team will play 10 conference-only games starting the weekend before Labor Day and ending the weekend before Thanksgiving.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is asking for the publics’ help locating a suspect involved in a hit and run accident on West Lake Okoboji Tuesday.

The Sarpy County Board of Commissioner voted Tuesday to approve the CONNECTSarpy One and Six Year Road Project Program that will improve transportation over the next several years.

Investigators say a lightning strike may have sparked a house fire overnight.

Omaha Police, as well as medics, were called to 40th and Cuming streets early Tuesday morning for a pedestrian involved in a crash.

It's located near 125th and West Center Road.

A semi-truck is blocking all lanes from the Kennedy Freeway northbound to I-80 westbound and partially blocking the I-480 southbound ramp.

The call went out Tuesday night -- Millard South High School needs donations as it begins welcoming families to orientation.

A military transfer required a quick move for a Nebraska family. But delays in communication caused concern over the mover they hired.

The Cass County Fair begins Wednesday but not without some adjustments to keep everyone safe during the pandemic.