Bear 89, better known as “Backpack,” was voted the 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. It came down to a margin of 5,091 votes, with Backpack beating Bear 910 by 103,344 votes to 98,253 to win the title.

Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin's $3 billion donation to Carnegie Mellon is the largest single gift ever to a U.S. university, ...

Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years is halted by a court an hour before it was set to take place.

Netanyahu says Saudi Arabia arrested a FlyDubai pilot who stabbed a colleague and allegedly tried to crash a flight full of ...

Where you retire matters. A new study ranks all 50 states on housing costs, cost of living and taxes to help retirees find ...

In a social media post, OPD says investigators believe the shooting was an isolated incident between two people.

A draft version of Form 1040 asks tax filers to confirm US citizenship or legal work authorization, according to New York ...

Jenny Jaspers returned to Eppley Airfield for a trip to North Carolina, months after American Airlines told her she could not fly alone. Firefighters quickly put out a burning U-Haul truck in the ...

Police are on the scene of a shooting that injured one person near Omaha Burke High School on Wednesday morning. At about 7:30 a.m., First Alert 6 first heard of the incident close by the school at ...

The Trump administration has launched a revamped website, America.gov, to simplify access to government information.

The Trump administration has launched America.gov. (Source: Pool, OpenAI, America.gov, Senate Judiciary Committee, CNN ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Rounds of rain, heavy at times, will bring the potential for flooding to parts of the area today and ...