Gina Dvorak
Digital Director
Omaha, Neb.
Gina Dvorak joined the 6 News WOWT newsroom as digital director in 2018 after a couple years in the same position across town at a competing newsroom. Gina has strong roots in Nebraska, growing up in a multigenerational farm family and earning her journalism degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
During her more than 25 years of journalistic experience, she moved from editing and design to digital platforms in 2010. She spent much of her career in the Los Angeles area before returning home to Nebraska in 2014.
A newborn was left in a box at the front door of a fire station in Omaha, Nebraska, over the weekend.
For several months, the FBI has been working with Omaha police to add some heat to the cold case.
The post angered several in the community, who called on the school district to intervene. But it’s not such a simple request, according to the superintendent.
The order declares the “biological differences between the sexes are enduring” and that the “sex” of a person will be defined by the gender designated at birth.
He ended the visit with some advice and encouragement for the group, urging them to find something positive to focus on and keep them off a bad path.
The governors of Nebraska and Iowa joined other Republican governors Monday for a news conference in Texas to share their concerns about border security.
Gov. Jim Pillen said Wednesday that he’s authorized the immediate deployment of 10 Nebraska State Patrol troopers to the U.S. border in Texas to “help stop the influx of illegal immigration at our southern border.”
The Douglas County (Neb.) Sheriff’s Office praised their effort and is looking for help identifying the good Samaritans.
Local and federal authorities on Friday morning were looking for a 22-year-old Council Bluffs man following a shooting that left one man dead and a woman injured near Blair High School.
The elephant born at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium earlier this month has received his name.
The responding animal control officer said he thought the dog had already died when he arrived at the home.
The Omaha Police Department on Friday released a detailed timeline of Tuesday’s active shooter scene at a Target store.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety said Thursday an exhaustive search of a property near Bartlett has turned up no evidence of a serial killer.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety said Thursday that an exhaustive search of a property near Bartlett has turned up no evidence of a serial killer.
Health officials in Nebraska said a child died from a brain-eating amoeba infection.
Just weeks after the death of a Missouri resident in Iowa due to a brain-eating amoeba, health officials are now investigating the death of a child in Douglas County, Nebraska, just across the border from Council Bluffs.
FBI Director Christopher Wray, in Nebraska on Wednesday to talk about attempted cyberattacks in David City, wouldn’t answer questions about the agency’s recent search at Mar-a-Lago.
An Omaha woman who gave birth on a sidewalk and left her baby out in the cold in February pleaded no contest in Douglas County Court on Monday morning.
The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday identified the man killed in a crash a day earlier involving a semi-truck and a train in rural southwest Iowa, south of Walnut.
The Air Force service members, stationed at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue and McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, are being represented by Kris Kobach, a candidate for Kansas attorney general, and attorneys from the America First Policy Institute.
An Iowa man was sentenced in federal court this week for the sexual assault of two teens he kidnapped in Omaha more than 18 years ago.
Dr. Lindsay Huse on Tuesday issued a temporary indoor mask mandate for the City of Omaha, effective at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
About 500 animals were rescued from a home in Nebraska over the course of two days, according to the Nebraska Humane Society.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in the District Court of Lancaster County, Erin Porterfield and Kristin Williams are looking to be recognized as the legal parents of both children after each gave birth to one child.
Theodore, 3, and Emily Price, 5, were found dead inside the home of Adam Price after a welfare check May 16. The children’s parents had been in the middle of a divorce, and it was Price’s week to have the children.
Cliff Emerson, 67, of Ashland was booked on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and first-degree criminal trespassing on Sept. 12.
Omaha Police arrested an international flight passenger at Eppley Airfield who caused a disturbance when asked to comply with COVID-19 rules.
The Indian rhino was found early Tuesday afternoon in front of its enclosure on a tram path, the zoo said.
A van caught fire at a Council Bluffs gas station, causing neighbors to report an explosion Monday near 35th Street and Avenue A.
A Council Bluffs mom on Wednesday filed a lawsuit fighting the state’s ban on mask mandates.
Previously wanted on an arrest warrant out of Iowa, Jeremy Binns, 43, is now facing additional charges of criminal impersonation, obstruction, and providing false information after he was apprehended following a pursuit in west Omaha last week, NSP said Tuesday.
Nebraska State Patrol troopers arrested two California men after locating 770 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop Wednesday near Seward.
