Aaron Sanderford

The question many protesters asked Omaha policymakers last summer: Why should the public trust that police departments can police bad behavior in their own ranks?

The Fourth Amendment protects people in their homes, and if police go in without justification, they risk having any evidence they find tossed.

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said the city plans to ask the Nebraska Legislature to change state law to make plain when police should release body camera footage.

Two-term incumbent Mayor Jean Stothert, a Republican, faces commercial realty executive RJ Neary. 3 News Now Investigators dug into the differences in their approaches to police reform.

In 2020, 49 of the 83 people who died of drug overdoses in Omaha’s home county had the synthetic opioid in their system, the data shows. That’s up from just three fentanyl deaths in 2016.

Drug dealers are mixing the synthetic opioid fentanyl into black-market pills that look just like the illicit prescription drugs that addicts use. It’s made these lookalike pills more addictive and deadly.

Republican Charles Herbster announced his candidacy for Nebraska governor on Monday.

Omaha Police on Friday released body-worn camera video footage from an officer’s November shooting of 35-year-old Kenneth Jones.

On Thursday, Douglas County allowed reporters to view the video, exhibits and transcripts from the grand jury proceeding following the officer-involved shooting of Kenneth Jones

Douglas County expects to charge Omaha between $800,000 and $1 million because of coronavirus-influenced increases in early voting and the costs associated with it.

Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert attended her first in-person forum of the 2021 city primary on Wednesday in North Omaha, joining Kimara Snipes, Jasmine Harris and RJ Neary.

One parking meter, two vehicles: City tests new devices in downtown Omaha  Omaha World-Herald

Councilman Harding said he’s focused on the same cornerstone issues that he ran on in 2017, including public safety, economic development and roads. He will face nonprofit consultant Naomi Hattaway.

Political newcomer Sara Kohen is challenging two-term incumbent Aimee Melton by arguing that Melton has been inconsistent and irresponsible in her approach to the city’s mask mandate.

Neary, 67, a Democrat, said Omaha needs to get the city’s basics right, including streets and trash and recycling, so it can do bigger things better, including making Omaha more

City Council members have expressed interest in giving the scooter pilot program another try in 2021, and the mayor might be open to the idea.

Nebraska makes its part in the 2020 election official, with the Nebraska State Board of Canvassers certifying the results 5-0 on Monday.

Symone Sanders is a graduate of Mercy High and Creighton University; her mother is publisher of the Omaha Star.

Precious McKesson will be the first woman and the first woman of color in Nebraska to cast an Electoral College ballot for a Democrat.

The night before a gunman shot four Sonic Drive-In workers, killing two of them, the workers and three friends ate what turned out to be a last meal together.