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Most of Nebraska will be under a Fire Weather Watch today. It will remain in effect throughout the day due to high winds and low humidity. The only areas excluded from the watch are Cedar, Dakota, Dixon and Knox counties. Former Senate candidate Nathan Sage is endorsing state Representative Josh...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Nebraska fields are bending under gusty winds while dry air sharpens the late-winter sun across Omaha. By midday, west winds will gust between 45 and 55 mph, especially in open areas near I-80 and Highway...

A few isolated rain and snow showers possible this week. Your Tuesday afternoon looks strangely similar to a nice spring day, with highs in the mid 70s! However, those winds are something to take note of, with some gusts reaching upwards of 40 mph. Due to high winds and dry...

Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Midwest Region. DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge sits right where Iowa meets Nebraska, about 25 miles north of Omaha along the Missouri River. The refuge covers 8,365 acres of bottomland forest, tallgrass prairie, and wetlands, all built around a seven-mile-long oxbow...

A Mission Middle School student got the surprise of a when Bellevue police unveiled a new school resource officer cruiser featuring her artwork design.

A longtime Caesars Rewards member, identified only as Michael, struck a life-changing $1.2 million jackpot on Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Horseshoe Council Bluffs Hotel & Casino becoming the first winner of Iowa’s new multi-casino progressive jackpot. Caesars Entertainment announced Friday, Feb. 13, that Michael won the...

Authorities have made another arrest in connection to a car meetup where a woman was hit by a car doing burnouts Saturday night.

OMAHA — In an alleyway behind Omaha’s Blackstone entertainment corridor is an obscured entrance to a speakeasy bar whose sibling owners wanted its name to serve as a tribute to their dad. There’s no exterior signage, but a mini barber pole offers the first hint of the father’s longtime trade and that of many others […]

OMAHA, Neb. - A multi-agency effort led to an arrest after a lengthy pursuit in eastern Nebraska Saturday. At approximately 6:55 p.m. on Saturday, a trooper attempted a traffic stop on a Ford Fusion for failing to stop at a stop sign near Gretna. As the trooper attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver refused to...

(Glenwood) -- An Omaha man faces a pair of charges following his arrest in Mills County over the weekend. The Mills County Sheriff's Office says 39-year-old Denis M Ramos Chicas was arrested shortly before 5:30 a.m. Sunday for possession of contraband or a weapon inside a correctional facility and OWI, 1st offense....