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Mayor Jean Stothert on Sunday said the city will increase its police presence downtown. Business leaders in downtown also announced that they will host a public meeting to discuss ways to improve safety. Both Stothert and representatives of the Downtown…

This farmland seems like a winning lottery ticket because it might fetch $40,000 or $50,000 an acre if or when they sell it to a developer. They know that’s serious money. They know it’s inevitable, though they don’t like to…

The Wear Orange event aimed to build awareness of gun violence in an effort to reduce it.

Dr. Lenworth M. Jacobs Jr. will headline the event. He was an early proponent of Stop the Bleed, a program providing average citizens with training to enable them to stop life-threatening bleeding at mass casualty events.

With an unemployment rate clocking in under 3 percent, nearly everyone in Omaha who wants a job has a job. For some employers, that’s a challenge.

Fundraisers, benefits and other charitable efforts in the Midlands

Even as home prices climb up and up, the vast majority of homeowners won’t see a major jump this year.

Our online app — Curbwise.com — has property valuation details for more than 200,000 homes in Douglas and Sarpy Counties.

In March 2017, Daniel Zavadil, then a sophomore at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, drove by the West Farm development near 144th Street and West Dodge Road and noticed a heaping pile of trees. To him, it looked like…

Before the crash, Omaha police had issued an arrest warrant for Denberth Chavarria, 47, on charges of first-degree murder in the death of Joselyn Serrano-Albayero, 33. But he wasn't being pursued at the time of the crash, police said.