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There’s a small sign on every table in the dining room at Johnny’s Cafe, Omaha’s oldest and perhaps original steakhouse. Johnny’s is a Nebraska icon, still owned by the descendants of a Polish immigrant named Frank Kawa, who bought a bar on 27th and L Streets in 1922 with no idea that the business would still be going

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - One woman was sent to the hospital after an alleged accidental discharged firearm in Douglas County Saturday night. According to a release from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to reports of a shooting at 88th and Kimball streets around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. At...

OMAHA, NE — Omaha’s deadliest fire killed nine people at the Blackstone Hotel in 1960, a toll that still stands as the city’s worst hotel disaster. The blaze remains a stark marker in the city’s history because no other Omaha fire has matched its death count.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - One man was sent to the hospital and multiple more were arrested after an apparent gunfight in Downtown Omaha early Sunday morning. According to Omaha Police, officers heard what sounded like a gun battle in the area of 12th and Howard around 1 a.m. on Sunday.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - What started as a backyard barbecue over 60 years ago has turned into a weeklong festival celebrated by hundreds. The Millard Days parade started with hard work from some small entrepreneurs. “First we have to build the stand, and then we had to buy all of...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Here are a few items on the agenda for Tuesday’s Omaha City Council meeting. No. 43: A public hearing and vote on making a policy to incentivize or require affordable housing in development projects seeking TIF funds. Nos. 44-50: Public hearings on various School Resource...

Ben Doody, executive editor at Omaha World Herald, joins Grow Omaha to discuss the paper’s strategic partnership with Grow Omaha and a broader expansion of local business coverage. Grow Omaha content is already appearing on Omaha.com, with plans for Grow Omaha contributions to a revived standalone Sunday business secti

Many of the commercial strips in Omaha, a city of about half a million people, have the air of a nineties college town, with low-slung blocks of row houses punctuated by dive bars and cafés, thrift stores and record shops. If the city is known for anything, food-wise, it’s beef; from the mid-nineteenth century to the m

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The name and renderings of the Omaha Streetcar were revealed by Mayor John Ewing and the Streetcar team on Friday. “Oscar” will be the official nickname for the Streetcar as it tested well with focus groups, per a city release, and that it carries “personality.”

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A Douglas County grand jury found no criminal wrongdoing by law enforcement in the deaths of eight people who died while in custody this past year. A recommendation came out of one case that was the focus of a First Alert 6 investigation earlier this year.