Topic: Metro

We 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.

Article count: 293

Crowded classrooms: Omaha Public Schools has worst student-teacher ratio in metro area and in state

Post author By Henry J. Cordes
Post date Sept. 3

Historic Potter’s Field in northern Omaha became ‘dumping ground’ for city’s poor, homeless and ill

Post author By Tim Trudell
Post date Sept. 1

Construction crews work on the Tallgrass Apartments in Papillion. In the past four years, more multi-family housing units — almost all of them apartments — have been built than single-family homes in the Omaha metro. Photo by Lily Smith/Flatwater Free Press

For the first time, more apartments than houses are being built in Omaha

Post author By Henry J. Cordes
Post date Aug. 27

Amid North Omaha’s ongoing struggle for fresh food, a new grocery store is coming to town

Post author By Kaitlyn Kelly
Post date Aug. 26

America’s streetcar revival has seen mixed results. Is Omaha on the right track?

Post author Jeremy Turley, Flatwater Free Press, and Jessica Wade, The Reader
Post date Aug. 20

Nebraska musicians move to New York (and elsewhere) for careers but keep their hometown roots

Post author By Leo Adam Biga
Post date Aug. 19

Priced out in Lincoln: How the capital city became the state’s hardest place to afford a home

Post author By Emily Wolf and Destiny Herbers
Post date Aug. 14

A family reunion drew 500 people to an Omaha park. It’s been going for over 100 years.

Post author By Leo Adam Biga
Post date Aug. 13

More than half the homes in east Omaha have unsafe lead levels. That doesn’t mean the EPA will clean them up.

Post author By Chris Bowling
Post date Aug. 10

Más del 50% de los hogares del este de Omaha tiene niveles inseguros de plomo. No significa que la EPA los limpiará.

Post author By Chris Bowling
Post date Aug. 10