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Rachel Garey-Jacobsen keeps her worms in her basement. Every week, she carries her metal compost container full of food scraps downstairs to feed the worms in their bin. In a few months’ time, the red wigglers will convert Jacobsen’s food waste into compost that she then will put in her garden.

The Nebraska Commission on Housing and Homelessness (NCHH) has announced two recipients of the 2026 Nebraska Affordable Housing Trust Fund (NAHTF) Award. The annual award was established in 2018 to recognize organizations and projects that have leveraged Nebraska Affordable Housing Trust Funds to create high-quality, affordable housing. This year’s honorees...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Here’s a list of activities and events coming up in the Omaha metro this weekend. It’s an annual event that puts Omaha on the map — the Berkshire Hathaway meeting is set for this weekend at the CHI Health Center. Omaha will be bustling and busy as thousands of shareholders arrive to get the “Buffett experience.” For non-shareholders wanting to join...

A feature film premiering Thursday at Film Streams centers around Nebraska’s Safe Haven Law, first passed in 2008.

Pizza in Nebraska doesn’t really care about being trendy. It cares about being worth the drive. Out here, it’s not about fancy toppings or big-city hype. It’s about that one place locals will happily send you 40 minutes off your route just to say, “trust me, it’s better this way.”

The Ord Trotter’s Whoa and Go on South 2nd Street sold one of two winning tickets for Wednesday’s Powerball draw, worth $1 million. The other, which also matched the first five numbers but not the Powerball itself, was sold at a Mega Saver in Omaha. The tickets, as...

The tool allows users to drop a pin on a map, upload a photo, and report an encampment to people trained to respond.

On historic Vinton Street in South Omaha, Louie M’s Burgerlust is the kind of neighborhood joint where the grill fires up early, the coffee flows freely, and half the room seems to be on a first‑name basis. This USMC veteran–owned, second‑generation family diner has spent more than four...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Two men have been arrested after a convenience store employee cashed out a gambling machine for $30,000 only to be robbed at gunpoint in the middle of the street, according to authorities. Raymond Whitbeck, 24, of Omaha and Joshua Holmes, 30, of Council Bluffs, are both...

After 8 years in the metro, Prairie in Bloom's west Omaha location is closing. Rising costs and shifting habits are to blame.