3+ week, 3+ day ago   (570+ words) On the first day of school for Identity Preparatory Academy in North Omaha, the inaugural fourth and fifth grade classes stood up and yelled, at the request of Mayor John Ewing Jr., “My dreams are possible.” “Anything that you can…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (550+ words) Omaha Public Schools has landed on an 8.2-cent levy increase as part of its proposed budget for this school year. It’s one way the district is trying to close a $50.6 million state aid shortfall following a miscalculation last year. Last…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1570+ words) Ever since she can remember, Mariana Juarez wanted to fly. A commercial pilot’s license seemed a distant dream, though, when family hardships in her home in Guerrero, Mexico, drove her out of school at age 14. Two years later, she and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (329+ words) Three federal grants totaling $5.15 million will help Nebraska’s biggest city navigate its transportation and infrastructure needs. At the top of the list is an ambitious project that would reclaim nearly 20 acres of land sliced up by an interstate and highway....

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (335+ words) Omaha city and business leaders met Wednesday to rally support for two upcoming ballot initiatives. The Building Better Omaha Committee was formed by the Greater Omaha Chamber to advocate for two bond issues totaling $185 million that will appear on the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (552+ words) information into an online system before routing the issue to the appropriate office or agency so it can be...or snow removal would go to public works. Every issue raised through the hotline or through an online...centralized area that…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (378+ words) The head of the Omaha Public Schools said the district is “already updating procedures” after revelations that some district employees were aware that Omaha Police officers were using electric shock gloves in schools. Superintendent Matthew Ray, along with several OPS…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (650+ words) A Maya community is using a national grant to create a climate resilience plan for a North Omaha neighborhood. Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim will use the $96,440 to plan out how its roughly 8-acre property along the Beltline Trail can help…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (453+ words) At Omaha’s Afghan-American Integration Day celebration on Saturday, attendees waved the Afghan flag – the tri-color version in use prior to the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of the country – and hung it from the side of the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge. The bridge…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (530+ words) already enacted comprehensive legislation on the issue. At the Thursday hearing, the state argued for...the arguments under advisement and said he would issue an order on the injunction “as soon as I can.”...