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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Rita Kucirek kneels on the floor in her Omaha basement, flipping through a handful of homemade photo albums. Between photos of her teenage self posing with family members…
Growing up on a hill overlooking North Omaha during World War II, Mary Carpenter remembers the numerous vegetable plots, called Victory Gardens, that dotted her Florence neighborhood. “Everybody…
Private equity-backed companies are gobbling up vast swaths of residential property across the country, including in Omaha. They are buying up hundreds of thousands of homes every few…
Cindy Vanek was supposed to be recovering from COVID-19, but something was wrong. The Papillion office coordinator contracted the virus just before Halloween 2020, a case she describes…
Owning a home is one of the best ways for North Omahans to build generational wealth, said an Omaha real estate agent at a wide-ranging housing town hall…
A few years back, a curious woman in Lincoln set out to find out more about the old house she loved. Why were the walls so thick? Who…
What happened: Over the past 30 months, the number one buyer of single-family homes in Douglas County has been Vinebrook Homes, which lists a Dayton, Ohio address. The…
Kerry and Vicky Blacketer have lived in their North Omaha home for nearly 16 years. Their children graduated high school while living here. Their grandchildren play house in…
WARSAW, Poland – Tatiana Zhuravka shuffles out from room 702 to collect medicine to ease her weary nerves and fractured back. The 74-year-old arrived here in April, after…
WARSAW, Poland – Eight-year-old Yehor focuses on the task at hand. On the floor of a hotel hallway, he folds scraps of paper into squares, layer upon layer…