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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Firefighters responded to a house fire in South Omaha Monday afternoon. Smoke could be seen coming from inside a home near 22nd and N Streets. Omaha Fire Department officials said a furnace caught fire in the home and the flames spread to the attic. The family...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A 9-year-old girl was life-flighted from Cedar Creek after a boating accident, a Cass County attorney official confirmed to First Alert 6. The accident happened south of the Omaha metro, near Louisville. The official said the girl was hurt while tubing.

OMAHA, Neb. (KLKN) — Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, a wildlife rescue service in Omaha, revealed the recent arrival of a bat species that has never before been documented in Nebraska. The bat was found on the floor in an Omaha office building. The people who found her reached out to...

A man with outstanding warrants died from a self-inflicted gunshot after a high-speed chase and hours-long standoff with Omaha police Sunday.

Used bookstores have their own weather. Dusty paper, penciled prices, and the occasional shelf that seems organized according to a system known only to the person behind the counter. Nebraska has secondhand bookshops where the investigating kind of browsing feels gloriously intact. A mystery novel might be hiding besid

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Although morning showers and storms are possible Monday, a hot and sunnier afternoon is forecast. Lingering showers and storms are possible into Monday morning, but Labor Day itself will be overall dry. However, it will remain hot with highs in the low 90s. Heat Continues Into...

OMAHA — An increased risk for severe weather has been added across the Middle and Lower Missouri Valley for the remainder of Sunday, September 6, with a Slight Risk (Level 2 of 5) now in place over a corridor stretching from Sioux Falls through Omaha and Kansas City, as organized storm clusters and supercells are expec

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A man wanted on a felony warrant is dead after a standoff with police Sunday night in a West Omaha neighborhood near 145th and Shirley streets. Police said officers first saw the man near 30th and Cuming streets around 7 p.m. He had an outstanding felony warrant. When the man noticed officers, he b

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - We all know dogs are sloppy drinkers — heck, my labs seem to slop more water out of the bowl than they consume … but believe it or not, there is science to a lot of pet habits. Water and dog drinking. You give...

You may recall that in an earlier Grow Omaha article about streetcar vehicles, I mentioned a company near Omaha, the Gomaco Trolley Company in Ida Grove, Iowa (about 100 miles north-northeast of Omaha), that has been building replica trolleys (meant to look like historic streetcar vehicles) since 1982. These vehicles..