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Indoor play areas are part of a $28 billion industry expected to grow 10% by 2030, offering families climate-controlled entertainment options during harsh winter months.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha firefighters made quick work of a fire in a vacant building near midtown Omaha Sunday morning. Crews responded to the call at a building near 50th Street and Saddle Creek Road around 9:30 a.m. Crews got the fire under control in about 15 minutes. No...

Hundreds of protesters on Sunday gathered in separate demonstrations in Nebraska cities following another shooting death by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis. The protests were organized after the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse in Minneapolis who was protesting immigration...

Businesses are teaming up with a local Sarpy County organization for a fundraiser to help fight food insecurity and pay off lunch debt for students across the county.

Forget whether tax increment financing as proposed was an appropriate way to fund Rapid City’s proposed Libertyland USA development. Set aside, for now, if South Dakota and by extension its municipalities ought to exempt qualifying data centers from a big chunk of the sales tax they typically would pay.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Gov. Jim Pillen’s team shielded him from questions about controversial topics during his attendance at an Omaha Chamber event Friday promoting his “Grow the Good Life” legislative initiative. At the conclusion of Friday’s news conference on LB1165, promoting economic growth in the state...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Some local snowplow crews are once again headed south for winter. Limited snowfall means lost revenue to landscape companies across the metro. A mild winter last year sent Owen’s Mowing crews to Bentonville, Arkansas for work. It’s an experience that Shane Holzworth of Owen’s Mowing...

The University of Nebraska System, in partnership with Omaha health care strategy and entrepreneurship support firm CQuence Health, has launched the Steel Works Health Accelerator to help medtech startups grow and stay in Nebraska. The accelerator is a joint venture between CQuence Health, the tech transfer...

KEARNEY, Neb. — State leaders plan to move all boys out of Kearney’s state-run youth treatment center months after multiple allegations of sexual abuse there. The teens would go to what’s currently a youth prison in Omaha, as part of a wider plan to shuffle in-custody kids.

OMAHA, Nebraska – Kylesse Walker didn’t need to dance Wednesday to make the jingles on her dress clang. Nearly 40 mph winds did the work for her. The 18-year-old Omaha and Ho-Chunk woman joined several other young Native women and dozens of other protesters on a busy street near downtown Omaha to protest the mass...