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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - One of Omaha’s oldest summer festivals shifts into high gear Friday. The Santa Lucia Festival is 101 years old, and organizers are working to make sure this annual tradition continues. Trish Geiver is checking on some of the treats that will be served up at...

(Omaha, NE) -- The U.S. Marshal's Service Fugitive Task Force and Omaha Police SWAT teams punch a hole in the side of a house and send in a K9 to make an arrest and end a long standoff in north Omaha. The officers were attempting to serve a warrant Friday...

July 31 is the final day City View Apartments can house residents. Nonprofits are working urgently to relocate the last tenants and prevent evictions.

OMAHA — Nebraska’s largest city would add an estimated 1,900 affordable homes to its urban core with a $40 million boost tied to the property tax growth expected from Omaha’s controversial streetcar project. The dwellings would be a mix of rental, for-sale and rehabbed properties in a 770-block area around the...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb — U.S. News & World Report has released its 2025-2026 Best Hospitals rankings, highlighting the top-performing hospitals across the nation. Among the 99 hospitals evaluated in Nebraska, only three outside of Lincoln and Omaha received distinctions. CHI Health Good Samaritan was recognized as a High...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The final three residents at City View moved out Friday. They’re finding their new start, with help from multiple Omaha nonprofits. Volunteers with the North Omaha Community Partnership were on site moving furniture from the building Friday, but say all tenants are relocated. Some are in new...

Construction is in full swing along the RiverFront for the CHI Health Center expansion. Omaha voters last year approved a bond issue for a $146 million project to increase the number of meeting rooms at the 21-year-old convention center. The expansion will add 94,000 sq. ft. and 25 meeting rooms spread across the...

Cool and comfortable but there will be some wildfire smoke. Today in History - July 31: OPPD customers suffer historic power outage. On this day last year, strong tornado-like winds wreaked havoc in the Omaha-metro, leading OPPD to record its largest power outage in history. Updated: 5 hours ago. Emergency...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - One person is injured after a crash early Friday in North Omaha. Just before 2 a.m. Friday, Omaha police officers were called to the crash near 24th and Ohio streets. Police dispatch tells us initial reports show the victim was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening...

The judge has accepted the plea deal allowing the man arrested in November as a suspect in the death of 17-year-old Mary Kay Hesse, to plead no contest. Two days after the explosion at Horizon Biofuels in Fremont, Neb., that left a man and two girls dead, the state fire marshal has concluded their investigation.