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The Mayor’s Office estimated the annexation would put Omaha’s population around 459,000.

The Cattlemen's Ball annually moves around Nebraska, and this year a sellout crowd attended the event on the farm of Randy and Becky Hergott in Hebron. Proceeds from the ball benefit the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

A three-year forecast report released Friday by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bureau of Business Research and the Nebraska Business Forecast Council says the state's economy will still expand, thanks to growth in manufacturing, construction and service industries.

“We say no to hatred, no to anger, no to the darkness trying to take over our city,” said Barbara Gard, a member of the First Responders organization that meets after each homicide to pray for peace and justice.

When the Wall Street Journal reported that Nebraska's housing shortage was making it nigh on impossible for needed workers to move there, the logical reaction was: Why don't they just plop down a few manufactured or modular homes and live…

The lanes will close Tuesday at 9 p.m. and reopen Wednesday at 5 a.m.

Top executives at Omaha’s publicly owned power company will receive higher salaries next year.

Work on Omaha's third La Casa location has already started.

The Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari’s member days will be held Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. The park is on the east side of Interstate 80's Exit 426.

April 8, 2016: Lance McIntire’s car was hit by 13 of the bullets and he was hit by four of them when, police say, he drove at Omaha Police Detective Dale Thomas on Thursday afternoon in the parking lot of…