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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Here are a few items on the agenda for Tuesday’s Omaha City Council meeting: Nos. 9-11: Items relating ...
Omaha Mayor John Ewing Jr. is cemented into history as a stretch of asphalt is renamed in his honor. The stretch of Lothrop ...
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Nebraska lawmakers voted this session to give the City of Omaha the opportunity to move its city election to line up with statewide elections that draw more voters to the polls.
Nebraska’s largest city would add an estimated 1,900 affordable homes to its urban core with a $40 million boost tied to the ...
Omaha and Council Bluffs each have an N.P. Dodge Park on their books, the land donated by members of a pioneer family that ...
Connelly said. Tuesday, the Omaha City Council approved funding for a new walkability study along the 13th Street corridor. It aims to update improvements made from a previous study in 2018.
The Omaha Police Department got approval from the Omaha City Council to purchase new drones. It says they will help the department with the ever-increasing importance of video evidence.
Omaha City Council members heard a long list of opposition to a south Omaha U-Pull-It site that's requesting the council allow them to purchase an auto shredder. 27,900 people played the daily ...
Jun 9, 2025 Jun 9, 2025 0 New Omaha City Council members were sworn in on June 9, 2025 ...
Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) endorsed Omaha City Councilman Brinker Harding in his bid for Rep. Don Bacon’s (R-NE) swing House seat in 2026. Fischer’s backing signals the Republican establishment ...
Omaha has some experience with creating a tax, only to have it changed by the Legislature. In 2010, it passed a commuter wheel tax, which included people who live outside the city's three-mile zone.
If the council votes to put it on the ballot, that would send Omaha voters to the polls to decide if the city would change Omaha’s City Election Day.