Good morning, Omaha.

Chicken Salad Chick (an Atlanta-based fast-casual restaurant chain serving Southern-style chicken salad) is entering Nebraska with plans to open seven locations in Omaha, Lincoln and Grand Island.

The expansion comes as the closest chains are in Kansas City.

On Thursday, the Omaha Symphony held its Issa Trap Symphony Afro-Fusion concert at Joslyn Art Museum, blending classical music with hip-hop.

Organized by local Dreamland Productions, the event featured a string quartet, Big Wade + the Black Swan Theory, and four performing artists.

The upcoming Boomstock Music Festival will bring live music from the 1960s and 1970s to Omaha.

First Alert 6’s Maria Cade and Elaina Riley spoke with Addy Combs (a festival organizer) about the event’s plans.

A new marquee sign was installed at the downtown Orpheum Theater on Aug.

27 as part of centennial celebration plans for 2027—more programming will be announced soon.

UNO and Fiserv held a ribbon cutting for the Maverick Headshot Studio at Mammel Hall on Wednesday, Aug.

26 to provide students with professional headshots for career profiles and job applications + networking opportunities. The new resource supports career readiness and workforce development.

A joint investigation by Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica shows that many yards in east Omaha still have unsafe lead levels left from a century of emissions, even after hundreds of millions spent since 1999 on cleanup (EPA guidelines remain under review).

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers today released a new guide (Parenting in the Digital Age) to help parents keep children safe online.

The guide covers social media, screen time, cyberbullying and online grooming and follows a $17 billion settlement with Meta.

Nebraska's groundwater nitrate levels doubled since 1978 despite decades of inaction from state and local governments — experts now warn of a possible link to increased childhood cancers and urge better regulation of farming practices.

Over the past four years, more apartments have been built than single-family homes in Omaha as rising home prices push renters into the market; city planners and developers say the boom is easing the shortage of affordable housing in the metro.

Grow Omaha reports that new apartment construction may be slowing in Omaha as permit numbers drop.

Developers and residents are watching the trend closely—more details will be revealed as market shifts continue.

Omaha volleyball player Torrey Tkach battled cancer twice and returned to the Mavericks in 2025; today she steps onto the court at the Washington State Tournament (Aug.

28-29) as the team chases a long-awaited NCAA Tournament berth.