Profiles
Downtown Omaha Riverfront. (Courtesty of Greater Omaha Chamber)
Supporting today's workforce and preparing for the future is the focus of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce's new POWER Conference on Oct. 10.
Combining the best of two previous Chamber events -...
It’s often said, love is the universal language. And, one thing is for certain, people love their pets. So there was nothing lost in translation – except the dog, and perhaps a language barrier –...
Did you know that if you “smell,” it may not please everyone, but it could help in locating your lost pet. Nor should you look a lost animal into the eye, but off to the side. Also, it would be a...
While conducting vehicle searches in Anbar Province in Iraq, Corporal Jason L. Dunham engaged the driver of a vehicle after he hopped out of it and physically challenged American troops. The Iraqi...
In more traditional times, a hog was roasted on the patio, downed by kegs of beer, amid lively music, hearty helpings of cornbread and coleslaw, whilst the whiskey “flowed” to the farmers, who...
Today’s News
MAGNOLIA, Ky. (AP) — The leafy soybean plants reach Caleb Ragland's thighs and are ripe for harvest, but the Kentucky farmer is deeply worried. He doesn't know where he and others like him will sell...
House For Sale sign is displayed in front of home in Prospect Heights, Ill., Monday, March 18, 2024. (Nam Y. Huh / AP Photo)
Not long after U.S. housing prices reached a record high this summer – the median existing home went for US$435,000 in June – President Donald Trump said that he was considering a plan to make home...
Hope Harbor Homeless shelter in Grand Island, Nebraska. (Barrett Stinson / The Independent via AP)
I commend City Councilman and congressional hopeful Brinker Harding for at least trying to do something about the homeless problem. But is it really a solution or just the go-to response when a...
OMAHA — After more than two years of study and often controversial neighborhood meetings, developers of a planned North Omaha area business park fueled by a $90 million state grant have announced a...
LINCOLN — Nebraska is one of five states the Trump administration selected to participate in a pilot program aimed at improving the way the nation carries out the Temporary Assistance for Needy...
This Week's News
10/02/2025 - 12:00am
MAGNOLIA, Ky. (AP) — The leafy soybean plants reach Caleb Ragland's thighs and are ripe for harvest, but the Kentucky farmer is deeply worried. He doesn't know where he and others like him will sell their crop because China has stopped buying....
House For Sale sign is displayed in front of home in Prospect Heights, Ill., Monday, March 18, 2024. (Nam Y. Huh / AP Photo)
10/02/2025 - 12:00am
Not long after U.S. housing prices reached a record high this summer – the median existing home went for US$435,000 in June – President Donald Trump said that he was considering a plan to make home sales tax-free.
Supporters of the idea, introduced...
10/02/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — After more than two years of study and often controversial neighborhood meetings, developers of a planned North Omaha area business park fueled by a $90 million state grant have announced a major pivot: No longer will they pursue the...
10/01/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska is one of five states the Trump administration selected to participate in a pilot program aimed at improving the way the nation carries out the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which is nearing its 30th year....
10/01/2025 - 12:00am
This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy.
Child care is so expensive for parents in college that it often exceeds the cost of their education....
10/01/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Conservative and liberal students at Nebraska colleges say they want to turn down the temperature on the heated political dialogue dominating national conversations in the weeks since the killing of Charlie Kirk.
But they’ve got their work...
10/01/2025 - 12:00am
In an interview that I had done with Executive Director Trish Bergman at the Eastern Nebraska Office on Aging some months ago, she had forewarned then of the coming “Silver Tsunami,” which is the coming crisis of boomers getting older and moving...
The Starbucks sign sits on the curb in front of a Safeway grocery store as a worker toils to take down the sign's hardware after the location was closed Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025, in Wheat Ridge, Colo. (David Zalubowski / AP Photo)
09/30/2025 - 12:00am
Starbucks said Thursday it's closing hundreds of stores in the U.S., Canada and Europe and laying off 900 nonretail employees as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround.
The Seattle coffee giant said store closures would start immediately....
09/30/2025 - 12:00am
A group of U.S. investors will take over the massive video-sharing platform TikTok, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
Trump signed an executive order certifying a transaction for TikTok complies with a 2024 law requiring the platform’s Chinese...
An Amazon Prime driver makes a delivery outside an apartment building in Pittsburgh, March 10, 2025. (Gene J. Puskar / AP Photo)
09/30/2025 - 12:00am
SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after...
Red pork tamale from Sam's Leon (20th and 'O'). (Matt Hebert)
09/30/2025 - 12:00am
My six year old, Francesca, couldn’t help but feel the contagious energy of total Husker domination the night of September 6th, 2025. Even having to break at the half for bedtime, she had already made a full wardrobe change to an all-red outfit and...
Angel Stephens, Mackyniz Harvey, and Melody Webb, Executive Director of Mothers Outreach Network, distributed a packet of materials to Council staff, inviting them to support the preservation of the Child Tax Credit for DC on Thursday, June 12, 2025 in Washington. (Larry French / AP Content Services for DC Guaranteed Income Coalition)
09/29/2025 - 12:00am
Earlier this year, some conservative states began to embrace child tax credits that put cash directly into the hands of families raising children.
Long favored by liberals, child tax credits can help ease the financial burdens of parenthood and have...
U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., addresses the crowd at the Nebraska Republican election night watch party in Bellevue on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Marissa Lindemann / Nebraska News Service)
09/29/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts launched his reelection bid last weekend at R&R Realty Group and kicked off a three-day tour of the state.
Ricketts looks to win his first full six-year term after winning a special election in 2024 to...
09/29/2025 - 12:00am
When filmmaker Nick Beaulieu set out to make his first documentary, he wanted to understand an apparent contradiction in his hometown — “a tale of two Omahans.”
How, he wondered, could the city bill itself as one of the top middle-class cities in...
A student casts her vote at a polling place on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. An area of the Nebraska Union was converted into a polling site for voters with addresses near campus, most of whom are students. (Naomi Delkamiller / Nebraska News Service)
09/26/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A voting advocacy group has sued to block Nebraska’s secretary of state from sharing voter registration data with the U.S. Department of Justice.
The lawsuit from Common Cause Nebraska seeks an injunction to stop Secretary of State Bob...
09/26/2025 - 12:00am
Since President Donald Trump began his second term, agreements allowing local law enforcement agencies to perform federal immigration duties have surged from 135 in January 2025 to more than 1,000 in September.
The program, known as 287(g), lets...
This combination of images gathered in September 2025 from social media posts shows AI-generated content depicting conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (Religion News Service via AP)
09/26/2025 - 12:00am
The best way to defeat a person’s ideology is to lay its defects bare before them – as well as to set out and arrange them in front of everyone else. The most well-functioning tool for exposing flaws is public debate; anything else will ultimately...
09/26/2025 - 12:00am
Julie Montpetit didn’t see it coming. Not her newfound passion for criminal justice reform, and certainly not her current predicament: blocked from talking to the man she loves, a man locked in prison thousands of miles away.
Her husband, Nicholas...
