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Nebraska doesn’t get nearly enough credit for its food scene. People hear Nebraska and immediately picture a gas station sandwich somewhere off the interstate. That’s fair, but honestly, it’s also wildly incomplete. The locals here have been eating extraordinarily well for years, at spots that have zero interest in goi

Get ready to celebrate America in historic fashion! The Hundred Block Community Collective will host Council Bluffs Celebrates 250, a completely free community celebration taking over the Historic 100 Block of West Broadway. Kicking off the Independence Day weekend a day early on July 3, this high-energy street festiva

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - While many in the metro will have their eyes on fireworks this weekend, others will be focused on the ponies running around an improved Horsemen’s Park track. Nebraska Horsemen’s CEO Lori Thomas expects 5,000 to 6,000 people per day to attend events at the track...

Two middle school students from Bennington brought home an award from the National History Day competition this summer. Seventh graders Payton Combes and Valeriya Bridgeford won the Discovery or Exploration in History award for their project on geographer Blair Niles, who was a founding member of the Society of Woman G

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Family and friends of Jason Jolkowski established a fund for information leading to his whereabouts after he went missing in 2001, and the case remains unsolved. Jolkowski was 19 years old when he disappeared. He told his father he was leaving his home near 48th and...

Amazon has confirmed that its next drone-delivery market is the Omaha area, with Prime Air aircraft set to fly out of the company’s warehouse in Papillion, Nebraska. The service will carry items under five pounds (2.3 kg) that fit in a shoebox, to homes within a 7 to 8 mile (11 to 13 km) radius of the warehouse. Amazon

Construction is progressing on Noddle Companies’ development project in Gretna in partnership with Nebraska Medicine. The 3-story, 125,000 sq. ft. Gretna Landing Health Center is going up northwest of 192nd & Highway 370. When it opens in the second half of next year, the health center will include primary and specialt

MILLARD, Neb. (WOWT) — Two Millard-area veterans organizations are merging and relocating to a larger space after years of discussion, forming a new group called the Millard Veterans’ Alliance. Millard American Legion Post 374 has operated at its location near 138th and S Street for 13 years. With...

An Omaha man stopped a suspected intoxicated driver in Dundee after a Memorial Park concert. The driver blew a .214 BAC.

First Alert 6's Maria Cade stops by Omaha's newest restaurant, Flower Child, to learn more about its offerings.