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The increases, from 2019 through 2023, are to help pay for the city’s federally mandated sewer system overhaul. Rate increases have been expected to continue indefinitely.

The driver accused in the Memorial Day crash that claimed the life of a 2-year-old boy was ordered held on $150,000 bail Tuesday.

The writer is the mother of a young woman who has lost yet another friend to violence in Omaha.

Maple Street has westbound traffic shifted to the center lane at North 59th Street for three days.

The club said in the report that a low-quality security camera may have captured the trailer being hauled away.

Metro bus riders are urged to call 402-341-0800 on how the street closings will affect routes.

Parts of Interstates 29 and 80 in Nebraska and Iowa may be impacted by these storms, AccuWeather.com said.

The new policy for Nebraska’s third-largest school district would require all employees to “observe and maintain professional boundaries."

Douglas County residents are the guinea pigs for this experiment by the Nebraska Community Energy Alliance, officials say, because the Omaha area is home to more than half of the state’s 600 registered electric vehicles.

Latasha Ellis, 44, was sentenced by Judge Laurie Smith Camp after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and the U.S. Treasury Department.