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The Omaha Public Power District and its private partner, NextEra Energy Resources, chose a city-owned field just east of Fort Calhoun to host OPPD’s first community solar power array. NextEra is building the 35-acre, 5-megawatt solar array there and has…

While the baseball teams face off on the field, College World Series spectators find themselves battling another opponent: the weather.

Life jackets are just like seat belts, Herb Angell says: “They can’t save you if you don’t wear them.”

New rules on lower-cost, lesser-benefit “association health plans,” issued Tuesday by the Trump administration, may attract some small businesses and self-employed people, Nebraska’s insurance chief said. But it’s too early to say how many will switch to association plans and…

The World-Herald interviewed Sarpy County Assessor Dan Pittman and Douglas County Assessor/Register of Deeds Diane Battiato about the valuation process, people’s complaints and the misconceptions about their work.

The 6-month-old named Willis arrived at Scatter Joy Acres, near 49th Street and Newport Avenue, over the weekend. Willis is the latest in a string of new faces to the farm.

A panel of young people from Omaha, St. Louis, Chicago and Parkland, Florida, talked about how gun violence has touched their lives, advocated for stricter gun control legislation and urged attendees at a crowded hotel ballroom downtown to register to…

With his latest appointment of John Freudenberg, Ricketts has named four judges, which is a majority of the seven-member court.

Eastern Nebraska residents could see a low-flying helicopter over areas of the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District in the next few weeks.

Firefighting officials said the house at 2575 Pierce St. was struck at 12:35 a.m. Tuesday.