OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - First Alert 6 has the headlines you need to know to get your Friday started. Some progress has been made after a blizzard on Wednesday left many in the Omaha metro and surrounding ...

Seeing federal courts slash away at the Voting Rights Act, some states are seeking to resurrect fallen protections for non-white voters with their own versions of the landmark law passed during the ...

With the federal law eroded by court decisions, about a half-dozen states want to enshrine protections for non-white voters. But it’s a tough sell even in Democratic states.

A federal judge says Friday he will “get to the bottom” of whether President Donald Trump’s administration defied his order ...

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Nebraska remains one of just five states that inflicts a tax on relatives of the recently deceased. And this month, the state ...

This southeast Nebraska county has been locked in an ongoing legal battle ... with its own employees. The county has refused ...

Gov. Jim Pillen declared a state of emergency on Friday for more than 20 counties impacted by this week’s winter storm.

Nebarska Gov. Jim Pillen issued an emergency declaration for 24 counties, including Douglas, Sarpy and Lancaster Counties, ...

Pillen said in a news release that at the peak of power outages Wednesday, about 120,000 people were without power. That ...

At one point Thursday afternoon, 119,199 customers were without power, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Despite Friday being the first full day of spring, cold air moving over the eastern U.S. has set off freeze and frost ...