Health board president says cuts in federal personnel and in state funding could leave Douglas County "on an island" in a ...

The Douglas County Youth Center has long isolated detained children in their rooms or other areas far more often and for ...

More than four decades after a young mother and her son were found dead in their Nebraska home, a forensic breakthrough has ...

Deputies will offer rides to shelters or grocery stores during the cold snap, while outreach groups have come through with ...

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said a teenager who they say killed a 79-year-old woman will be charged as an adult.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen appointed an Omaha attorney to serve as the county court judge in the Fourth Judicial District.

A bill to ban the sale of so-called lab-grown meat might seem like a no-brainer in Nebraska, where beef is king.

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said a woman tried to bring a firearm into the courthouse on Wednesday. The gun was found ...

An arrest has been made in the 1979 murders of Deroshia Matthews, 26, and her 7-year-old son, Kamal, who were killed in their ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A man with several outstanding arrest warrants across Nebraska was taken into custody in the Omaha metro ...

The Douglas County Department of Corrections is investigating the death of an incarcerated person. Authorities said ...