Gina Dvorak
Digital Director
Omaha, Neb.
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Gina Dvorak has been a journalist for the past 25 years, moving from editing and design, and finally to digital platforms in 2011. A UNL alumn, she spent much of her career in Los Angeles-area before returning home to Nebraska in 2014.
Gov. Pete Ricketts on Wednesday urged Nebraska’s employers to believe employees when they say they’ve been exposed to the virus and allow them to quarantine.
Omaha City Council members unanimously passed the proposed contract with the Omaha Police union during their meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Iowa Governor Reynolds is holding a press conference Tuesday at 11 a.m. Watch it live in our app and on Facebook.
Criminal charges were filed Monday against Roberto Silva Jr., the suspect in Saturday night’s fatal shooting at Sonic, in Sarpy County court.
The Omaha Police Department has issued a statement explaining the series of events that led to an officer-involved shooting in which one man died.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is giving an update on the state’s COVID-19 response at 1:30 p.m. Friday.
During an emergency meeting on Thursday afternoon, Ralston officials passed a face mask mandate for the city that borders Omaha, where a mask ordinance has been in place since August.
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Gov. Pete Ricketts and other state officials, medical personnel, and community organizations are talking about the state’s new bilinugal “Do Right, Right Now” campaign.
From surgeons to technicians, nurses to residents, psychiatrists to oncologists, from pediatrics to geriatrics, and many in emergency medicine, more than 1,700 local medical professionals, students, and others working in the local healthcare system are making an appeal to Nebraskans.
Gov. Pete Ricketts is scheduled to give an update on Nebraska’s COVID-19 response at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Hours after new restrictions were put in place across Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds is having a news conference at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced new restrictions on some business hours and capacity, while laying out situations when facemasks are required.
The Nebraska Republican Party on Monday retweeted President Trump’s claim that he won the election with that very phrase: “He won the election," marking the first time the state party had put its own verified account fully behind a flagged post from the president.
Governor Ricketts is holding a press conference to provide an update on the state’s response to slowing the spread of COVID-19 and protecting hospitals.
Mayor Jean Stothert, Douglas County Health Director Dr. Adi Pour, representatives from local hospitals and the Omaha Police Department will give an update on the local COVID-19 response at 2 p.m. Friday.
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At a news conference Friday on the Nebraska COVID-19 response, Gov. Pete Ricketts laid out a possible scenario for shutting down in-person dining, restricting gatherings, and ceasing youth extracurricular activities.
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Congratulating Rich Pahls on his election to the Nebraska State Legislature, the Omaha City Council announced Thursday they were accepting applications for his 5th District council seat.
Gov. Pete Ricketts on Thursday asked Nebraskans to modify their plans for Thanksgiving gatherings, limiting any such get-together to very small groups.
Gov. Kim Reynolds said Thursday morning that state is focused on messaging, urging Iowans to follow guidelines about social distancing and facemasks.
Following the news that Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts was under quarantine after he was directly exposed to COVID-19 over the weekend, the governor faced scrutiny Tuesday for an unmasked photo-op following his news conference the previous day.
The City Council on Tuesday voted to keep the city’s face mask ordinance in place through most of February.
Gov. Kim Reynolds is giving an update this morning. Watch the livestream above, in our apps, and on our Facebook page.
Local medical officials urging Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts to address increasing COVID-19 cases and decreasing hospital capacity across the state sparked political controversy when his communications lead took aim at three of them.
During a news conference Monday morning, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announced new directed health measures — some that had been in place before — that will go into effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
Sarpy County election officials have delayed Friday’s meeting, where they also planned to count about 240 ballot remakes.
Gov. Pete Ricketts and Nebraska’s chief medical officer are giving an update on the state’s COVID-19 response at 1 p.m. Thursday.
Even with high voter turnout in Nebraska this election, the Secretary of State emphasized the importance every ballot has, and called for diligence in monitoring early balloting policies as those voting methods become more popular among voters.
Dr. Cary Ward of CHI Health, Dr. Bill Lydiatt of Methodist, and Dr. Harris Frankel of Nebraska Medicine are giving an update Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, on the health systems' respective plans for elective surgeries, bed capacities, and navigating the coming months.
Governor Pete Ricketts will be live at 10 a.m. announcing additional support for long-term care facilities amid the pandemic.
In a written statement Thursday, the family of the man indicted by a grand jury of killing James Scurlock during a protest this summer called on the special prosecutor to release transcripts.
All Highland Elementary students had classes temporarily moved to full remote-learning Wednesday and will remain that way for the rest of the week after seven positive cases of COVID-19 were confirmed there in recent days.
The mass departure from the MAGA rally at Eppley Airfield made for long treks home Tuesday night, but not the way many on social media — and even Joe Biden himself — make it seem.
With one week until Election Day, President Trump ended his day on the campaign trail Tuesday in Omaha.
A 25-year-old Council Bluffs man pleaded guilty in federal court to having a Molotov cocktail in his possession while participating in protest in Omaha this past May.
Special Prosecutor Frederick Franklin filed a copy of the death certificate of Jake Gardner, the man indicted by a grand jury in the shooting death of James Scurlock during George Floyd protests downtown in May, on Tuesday along with an official dismissal of the indictment.
Nebraska officials shared details about the state’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan during a news conference Monday morning.
President Trump is planning an Omaha campaign stop Tuesday evening.
Todd Pfitzer with Omaha Public Works is reviewing the city’s plans for handling snow ahead of the city’s first forecasted snowfall.
Community members were invited to participate in a ceremony Friday honoring a man who was lynched in Omaha nearly 130 years ago.
Douglas County residents were lining up at the Election Commission office Friday morning — the last day to register to vote in the state of Nebraska.
Two men were declared dead at the scene of a crash Thursday morning on Interstate 80 after their vehicle went airborne and hit a barrier at the I-L-Q off-ramp.
Omaha Police Department Gang Unit detectives have taken a suspect into custody they believe is connected to a shooting last week at Highland Tower.
Dr. Jeffrey Gold, chancellor of University of Nebraska – Omaha, is moving to a new job in the greater University of Nebraska system, becoming its executive vice president and provost.
Nebraska State Patrol troopers arrested a Missouri man Wednesday following a report of a road-rage incident on Interstate 80.
Councilman Ben Gray has put forth a motion to throw out the “sunset provision” currently in place for the city’s face mask ordinance and instead keep it in place until certain positivity and positive case target numbers are hit.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and public health leaders are planning an update at 1:30 p.m. Friday on the state’s COVID-19 response.
Gretna High School has traced a surge of over 40 cases back to a large gathering on October 3 and is now urging students to take advantage of free testing Friday.
A U.S. magistrate judge dismissed the child pornography case against former Catholic school principal Marlan Burki on Wednesday.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and other state officials are giving an update at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Former President Barack Obama has a message for Nebraskans: vote.