Fifth annual Garden Party Omaha music festival

Free Mother’s Day weekend live music celebrating women and nonbinary songwriters
Frontier plane strikes, kills pedestrian during takeoff on Denver airport runway

A Frontier Airlines plane aborted takeoff after it struck a person on a runway at Denver International Airport late Friday.
Short-term ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine starts Saturday

President Donald Trump announced a three-day ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war and expressed hope for an extension.
Republican redistricting edge widens after Democratic setback in Virginia

A Virginia Supreme Court ruling Friday invalidated a Democrat-led redistricting plan that voters approved last month.
After years of studying past results, South Carolina man scores $2M Powerball win

Years of studying Powerball results paid off with a $2 million win for one South Carolina man.
Warm with increasing clouds Saturday for Omaha area

Clouds increase with warm temperatures to start your weekend for eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. Outside chance for a stray shower or sprinkle Saturday afternoon. Meteorologist Caitlin Harvey has the forecast you trust from Omaha’s Weather Leader.
Trump is lifting restrictions on hunting in national parks, refuges

The Trump administration is pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions.
On the cruise ship hit by hantavirus, some fear what awaits them at home

Some passengers on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship are afraid of how they will be received back home.
Pope prays for end to ‘fratricidal hatred’

Pope Leo XIV traveled by helicopter to Pompeii, near Naples, for a daylong visit to mark the May 8 feast of Our Lady of Pompeii.
Omaha weather: Warmer temperatures moving forward in Omaha

Warmer temperatures ahead