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It had already been a tough week for Denise Powell in 2012 when she found herself stuck in I-80 traffic and doubled over in pain. Days earlier, she had made a trip to the hospital and was told she was experiencing a miscarriage — losing the baby she and her husband had been so overjoyed to welcome. Doctors told her to go home and wait it out.

Now, the pain had re...

Asked about the path that led him to run for Nebraska’s open 2nd District seat this year, Republican Brinker Harding recalls a bold move he made to land a job some 40-plus years ago, when he was in his early 20s.

At the time, he desperately wanted to work in sports marketing, and a new owner had just acquired the Omaha Royals minor league baseball team. Harding k...

There’s a new, delicious food aroma wafting through midtown Omaha. 

On the opposite side of Dundee from where the scent of Amsterdam Falafel’s curry fries have long enticed noses into ordering, Omaha Bagel Co. is now officially also in the business of free smells. 

W...