Flatwater Free PressChris Bowling is an investigative reporter for Flatwater Free Press. Prior to joining Flatwater Free Press Chris was an investigative reporter and editor for The Reader, Omaha's alternative monthly newspaper where he focused on issues like climate change, housing, health, criminal justice and social issues. A native of Cincinnati, Bowling graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2018.
The State of Nebraska has kept $15.7 million in child support payments that could have gone to some of state’s neediest families. After a compromise, a solution may be near.
Nonprofit PACE says it offered to give the senior center back to its original owners before agreeing to sell it for $500,000. Now the original owners are moving to block the sale.
Rural mental health struggles are real, as is the lack of mental health providers in small-town Nebraska.
But the Koch family, and many others, are working to help.
Omaha’s Citizen Complaint Review Board is meant to provide civilian oversight of the police department. It has reviewed only seven complaints against police in the past four years, far fewer than neighboring cities.
A safety net system meant to flag potential cancers didn’t work for more than a year. The VA won’t say how many other patients fell through it.
In the wake of the Saint Francis debacle, the State of Nebraska has taken over case management inside the Omaha-area child welfare system. It’s still struggling, experts and the state’s own metrics show.
The sun ascended into a vacant late-summer sky as the concrete baked below. Later that day, Omaha’s heat index would reach 109 degrees. But even at 8 a.m.,…
Editor’s note: This legislation later passed in an amended version as part of another bill on June 1, 2023. The Native woman wearing feathers in her braided hair…
This is a collaboration between The Omaha Reader and Flatwater Free Press. Sgt. Aaron Hanson, a former president of Omaha’s police union, used excessive force when he kneed…
Editor’s note: This story was updated Oct. 4, 2023. Find the original story below. A rural Nebraska school district must pay more than $200,000 in damages and implement…