4+ week, 1+ day ago   (369+ words) Vindication, The End of Oak Street be thy name. Mitchell’s first blockbuster is a throbbing blob of nonsense peddling an unmistakably conservative moral. Insofar as it is about anything, and one could easily argue it isn’t, it is about how…...

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+ week, 5+ day ago   (521+ words) There were more sinkholes in Omaha’s Blackstone neighborhood that didn’t make headlines. A large void opened in late June when the foundation wall of a vacant building collapsed, swallowing a sidewalk and part of the building at 3810 and 3812 Farnam St....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (376+ words) The nation’s top health official was in Omaha Thursday. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with members of the press following a tour of the National Quarantine Unit housed within the University of…...

3+ day, 2+ 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+ week, 2+ day ago   (1825+ words) There’s beauty — and complexity — in the simple. That’s one of the many mantras, along with friendship and the legacy of the event’s founder, expressed this month at the annual Tecmo Bowl National Championship in west Omaha. After a decade, the…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (241+ words) More than 20 ceramics artists will display their works during an annual pottery event. The Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour will return this October. The self-guided tour will feature works from 22 artists displayed at five stops, including two pottery studios and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (206+ words) A group of Omaha stamp enthusiasts will host its annual show later this month in celebration of the society’s 100th anniversary. The Omaha Philatelic Society, which celebrates and collects postage stamps, will hold its centennial stamp show on Sept. 19-20 at the…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (550+ words) “They’ve owned the mistake and owned that it was an error on their part and not something in the data that...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (552+ words) Cindy Wiles paused a conversation with her colleague to pick up the phone ringing on her desk. She answered with the same greeting she’s uttered thousands of times before: “Mayor’s hotline, can I help you?” The calls are fairly continuous…...