Landspout tornado over Lake Manawa: 10 years later
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (WOWT) - Ten years ago today, a landspout tornado formed over Lake Manawa in what witnesses described as an unusual and largely stationary weather event. “And it come down right here, it is just so pretty here,” one witness said. “I have never [seen] anything like...
Apprentice flown to hospital after being pinned by elevator at Google data center
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (Daily Nonpareil) -- A contractor’s apprentice was seriously injured Monday evening after becoming trapped beneath an exterior construction elevator at Google's main data center in Council bluffs. The Council Bluffs Fire Department responded to Google's Southlands campus at 10420 Bunge Ave. around
Amazon Prime Air Opens Omaha As Walmart Owns The Map
Amazon switched on Prime Air drone deliveries in the Omaha metro on Wednesday, flying packages out of its Highway 370 fulfillment center in Papillion, Nebraska. It is the 11th Prime Air market in the United States and the first in Nebraska, landing four weeks after DroneXL reported the company was staffing up the site.
PREVIEW: Wet Leg to headline Omaha’s MAHA music festival
OMAHA, NEBRASKA IS GETTING A TASE OF THE U.K.—Since 2009, the annual MAHA music festival has brought together local and national acts to share their music in the heart of the midwest: Omaha. The festival returns this year on Saturday, August 8 at The RiverFront in downtown Omaha with...
Omaha food truck owner keeps business going after vandalism
El Churro Spot owner Omar Garrido is facing repair bills after his two food trucks were damaged in Central Omaha on Sunday night.
Handicap-accessible fishing pier at Standing Bear Lake closed 18 months for ice damage repairs
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Standing Bear Lake in northwest Omaha is one of the best places to cast a line in the city. Renovations a few years ago included a handicap-accessible pier designed to give kids and wheelchair users easier access to the water. But the pier has been closed...
The EPA Doesn’t Typically Retest Homes in the Country’s Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site....
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Military Ave safety improvements aim to reduce crashes
Omaha plans to resurface Military Avenue and add safety upgrades after 62 crashes were recorded along the corridor between 2020 and 2026.
Nebraska cottage bakery laws helping Omaha entrepreneurs build businesses from home kitchens
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - For bakers looking to reach the goal of a storefront, it often starts in a home kitchen. That is the path for metro entrepreneurs using Nebraska’s cottage food laws to build their businesses from the ground up. From home kitchen to storefront. Kelsay Cosgrove, owner...
Colorado teacher who was given months to live celebrates 10 years in remission after...
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A Colorado teacher who came to Nebraska a decade ago as a last resort is celebrating 10 years in remission from a blood cancer that doctors believed would kill her within months. Amy Cheese, of Fort Collins, Colorado, was diagnosed with lymphoma and carried a grapefruit-sized...
