Flatwater Free PressWe can’t cover a state while ignoring its two largest metros. We leave space to tell stories about people, businesses and institutions in the metropolitan areas. We include metro suburbs in this category.
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Kelly Morris of Omaha isn’t imbibing this month, but not because it’s “Dry January,” when millions of Americans turn the page on holiday excess and put their drinking…
As fighters went through their paces one recent night at B&B Sports Academy, its co-owner, world welterweight boxing champion Terence “Bud” Crawford, got right in the mix, interacting…
On a shirt-sleeve Sunday in December, worshippers climb the steps of the tall church in the lowlands of Lincoln. Friedens Evangelical Lutheran gleams in the sun. The onion…
Thousands of Omahans rely on the bus, including many with disabilities. But several say they are frustrated after having trouble using some bus tickets — including those distributed…
In mid-July, a television station in India recounted the day the air conditioner died at a fast food restaurant 8,000 miles away. The temperature had soared to 32…
The city’s main library will be different. The operation and funding structure of the Omaha Public Library system — even if it grows to 13 branches — will…
“Mom’s home! Look away, look away!” This was how I greeted my kids during the first half of the COVID-19 pandemic after an internal medicine clinic shift at…
Sarah and Amber are Millard neighbors and their daughters are best friends. Yet the moms disagree about whether their girls should have to wear masks in school.
This summer, vaccination in Nebraska has morphed into a public health version of hand-to-hand combat, where medical providers go person-to-person, holding intensely personal conversations and trying to correct rampant vaccine misinformation. In some places, like South Omaha, this is happening widely. And it’s working.