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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - If you need to get your grass cut, do it Monday evening! Your yard might stay wet until Friday in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. Rounds of rain and storms through the middle of the week have prompted a Flood Watch from Tuesday evening through Thursday.

Things will be dry, just a little humid around Omaha for Monday evening with temps in the mid 60s overnight. There may be a few areas of patchy fog to begin Tuesday morning. Tuesday morning so far looks fairly dry, but by late morning the rain starts to move in, becoming more widespread in the afternoon and evening. Th

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The Omaha City Council will consider a redevelopment agreement Tuesday for the old Omaha grain silos on Vinton Street. If approved, the plan would level a section of the silos and build more than 230 rentable apartments and townhomes. Neighbors recall the silos’ history. For...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Here are a few items on the agenda for Tuesday’s Omaha City Council meeting. No. 16: A consent agenda vote on allotting over $10 million in TIF funds for the Vinton Silos Project. No. 18: A consent agenda vote on approving a lease between the...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Center Mall near 42nd and Center Streets is being eyed by the Department of Veteran Affairs, according to an Omaha official. Omaha City Councilmember Danny Begley said the city has learned the Department expressed interest in the property. “In order to provide the Department of Veterans...

PAPILLION, Neb. (WOWT) - The driver connected to a crash that killed one in Papillion in Oct. 2024 has been sentenced to prison. 39-year-old Wade Harvey was sentenced to 8-16 years in prison for the charge of motor vehicle homicide-DUI. Harvey will also have his driver’s license revoked for 15...

Dorsey Funeral Home and Cremations in Omaha has been placed on probation following a petition filed by the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, according to a news release. On June 4, 2026, the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office filed a petition for disciplinary action in response to Dorsey Funeral Home and Cremations f

OMAHA — A Douglas County district judge blocked part of an Omaha ordinance to require employers in city limits to pay youth workers the same minimum wage as adults as the legal fight plays out. District Judge Timothy P. Burns on Monday wrote that the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office was likely to succeed in part […]

OMAHA — The FBI’s Omaha field office is asking people who may have been affected by an alleged financial fraud scheme involving a travel adviser to come forward. Investigators believe clients of Captivating Travels by Connie may have been affected. The business offered domestic and international travel planning service

Rapid growth in eastern Nebraska has created record demand for electricity. Omaha Public Power District, a publicly owned electricity provider that serves nearly half of Nebraska’s population, reported its highest demand for electricity ever this summer. On July 27, when the temperature reached 97 degrees and the heat