Our best Omaha staff photos & videos of July 2024
See our best Omaha staff photos & videos from July 2024.
Fireworks follow the Omaha Storm Chasers game at Werner Park in Papillion on Wednesday, July 3, 2024.
People play with glowsticks as they watch fireworks after the Omaha Storm Chasers game at Werner Park in Papillion on Wednesday, July 3, 2024.
The two buildings at the bottom of the photo at the Southside Terrace apartments in Omaha will soon be demolished as part of phase I of the Southside Terrace Redevelopment project on Tuesday, July 9, 2024.
Milton Kitchen, of Omaha, right, hands out water balloons to a group at a hydrant party on 28th and Harrison Street in Omaha, on Wednesday, July 3, 2024.
Tethloach Ranley, of Omaha, grates cured egg yolk onto tartare with pickled shallots paired with nettle tortillas chips and local corn crackers for the first course from V. Metz at the Battle of the Chefs at Long Walk Farm in Council Bluffs, on Sunday, July 7, 2024.
Vicki Nordskog, of Atlantic, Iowa, left, Denise O’Brien, of Atlanta, Iowa, and Marcus Josephson, of Griswold, Iowa, grab plates from V. Metz’s second course at the Battle of the Chefs at Long Walk Farm in Council Bluffs, on Sunday, July 7, 2024.
Milk Ruiz, left, Jade Monroe, Nevaeh Parker and Grace Johnson, all of Omaha, cool off and rest before the Fourth of July parade in Ralston, on Thursday, July 4, 2024.
The Corvette Club drives down Main Street at the Fourth of July parade in Ralston, on Thursday, July 4, 2024.
Michelle Alfaro, head chef of Sauced by Alfaro, left, and Joe Alfaro, co-owner of Sauced by Alfaro, celebrate winning in the first round of the Battle of the Chefs at Long Walk Farm in Council Bluffs, on Sunday, July 7, 2024.
Amy Beyersdorf, physical therapist, left, puts down a plastic ring after testing Buddy McClinton, center right, on motor skills while Ashley McClinton, right, smiles at a follow-up appointment at Women’s Methodist Hospital in Omaha, on Wednesday, July 10, 2024.
Heartland of America Band “Raptor" performs during Jazz on the Green at Midtown Crossing's Turner Park in Omaha on Thursday, July 11, 2024.
Amanda Petersmith carries her daughter, Josie Petersmith, both of Omaha, on her shoulders while walking in the Heartland Pride Parade on Capitol Avenue in Omaha, on Saturday, July 13, 2024.
Omaha Storm Chasers' Ryan Fitzgerald (22) tags out Toledo Mud Hens' Akil Baddoo (63) at second base during the first inning of a baseball game at Werner Park in Papillion on Saturday, July 13, 2024.
Achyuth Kalluchi, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, left, and Jordan Rowley, associate professor at the College of Medicine’s department of genetics, cell biology and anatomy, sit for a portrait at UNMC’s Durham Research Center in Omaha, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024.
Terence "Bud" Crawford embraces Tydale "TK Mafioso" Tiller outside B &B Sports Academy in Omaha on Saturday, July 20, 2024. Hundreds gathered in North Omaha to celebrate Crawford before his next fight in Los Angeles against Israil Madrimov.
Jack Met of AJR performs at the CHI Health Center as part of their "The Maybe Man Tour" in Omaha on Sunday, July 21, 2024.
Nebraskans listen to community members speak during a town hall on Gov. Jim Pillen's proposed property tax plan at the University of Nebraska Wick Alumni Center in Lincoln on Monday, July 22, 2024.
LeeAnn Johnson, 11, tries to encourage passing motorists to visit their lemonade stand in front of the Ma Fleur daycare near 30th and Ida Streets in Omaha on Thursday, July 25, 2024.
Edward Pierce, left, buys some lemonade from Ta'Vio Johnson, 14, in front of the Ma Fleur daycare near 30th and Ida Streets in Omaha on Thursday, July 25, 2024.
Ta'Vio Johnson, 14, pours a cup of lemonade for a customer at their lemonade stand in front of the Ma Fleur daycare near 30th and Ida Streets in Omaha on Thursday, July 25, 2024.
Sonia Daniel, 10, tries to encourage passing motorists to visit their lemonade stand in front of the Ma Fleur daycare near 30th and Ida Streets in Omaha on Thursday, July 25, 2024.
From left: Sonia Daniel, 10, and Ta'Vio Johnson, 14, try to encourage motorists to visit their lemonade stand in front of the Ma Fleur daycare near 30th and Ida Streets in Omaha on Thursday, July 25, 2024.
Multiple counties in Nebraska experienced problems with reaching 911 call centers due to problems with wireless phone carriers.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services may have overpaid as much as $12.8 million to child care providers on behalf of low-income parents, according to a new audit.
A 12-year-old Omahan is still reeling after pulling a huge muskie from Zorinsky Lake. “Guys were cheering him on and offering support. It was heartwarming,” mom Erinn Drouin said.
Gov. Jim Pillen's property tax plan would leave the lowest income Nebraskans to shoulder more of the state's tax burden while giving the most relief to the largest property owners, but he asserts the plan is critical to the state's future.
Less than two years after resigning his Nebraska U.S. Senate seat to become president of the University of Florida, Ben Sasse announced he’s stepping down from that role due to family health concerns.
There's a target date for opening Nebraska's first LEGO store.
The Jamestown Canyon virus has been confirmed in Nebraska for the first time. While the virus is rare, about half of all human cases require hospitalization.
Tessa Porter's lab was born in a church kitchen and a spare bedroom. Now, the Omaha entrepreneur has opened Sprinkk's first fully renovated and fully supplied development and testing facility.
Nebraska political figures weighed in Sunday on President Joe Biden's decision not to seek reelection.
Multiple residents of a midtown Omaha apartment building were forced to evacuate after a fire broke out early Tuesday morning.
Gov. Jim Pillen's plan to cut Nebraska's property taxes 50% hit a legislative wrench when the main bill encompassing his proposal was sent to a unexpected committee.
A new lawsuit filed in Missouri accuses Omaha Archbishop George Lucas of sexually abusing a teen-aged seminarian in St. Louis in the late 1980s, an allegation that Lucas denies.
Nebraska's top election official is being sued for his order to local elections offices to stop registering voters with felony records.
As Nebraska lawmakers explore ways to meet Gov. Pillen’s goal of reducing property taxes, one senator urged the Legislature to start with a big line item on the balance sheet.
An Omaha Fire Department dive team recovered the bodies of two fishermen who drowned Wednesday morning at Lake Cunningham while trying to retrieve their boat.
Nearly 91,000 Omaha Public Power District customers remain without power Friday morning due to Wednesday's damaging storms.
Nebraska property taxes would drop an average 35% under a scaled-back version of Gov. Jim Pillen's tax plan unveiled to key lawmakers Monday.
