TIF funding denied for potential downtown Omaha hotel, proposal moving to City Council
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A proposal to build a new hotel at 10th and Harney streets has been denied TIF funding and rejected by the Omaha Planning Board, sending the request to city council for a final decision. Drury Development Corporation submitted the proposal to the planning board in May....
One hospitalized after being entrapped in elevator at Google data center in Council Bluffs
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (WOWT) - A construction worker was hospitalized after being entrapped in an elevator at a Google data center. According to a release from the Council Bluffs Fire Department, crews responded to the scene at Google Southlands in Council Bluffs just after 5 p.m. Monday. CBFD says the...
Douglas County Health Department shares update on local Cyclospora cases
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The Douglas County Health Department has shared its most recent Cyclospora statistics. A release from the DCHD says confirmed cases in the area have increased to 71. The last report tallied Douglas County’s cases at 45, and the report prior logged 27. Nebraska’s current cases...
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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