Gina Dvorak
Digital Director
Omaha, Neb.
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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 nearly 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.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 10:19 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
The elephant born at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium earlier this month has received his name.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 7:33 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Mike McKnight
The responding animal control officer said he thought the dog had already died when he arrived at the home.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 6:23 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak and Gray News staff
The Omaha Police Department on Friday released a detailed timeline of Tuesday’s active shooter scene at a Target store.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2022 at 8:16 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
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.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2022 at 7:17 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
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.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 4:31 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Emily Van de Riet
Health officials in Nebraska said a child died from a brain-eating amoeba infection.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 11:49 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
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.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 5:53 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak, Brian Mastre and Gray News staff
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.
Updated: Jul. 18, 2022 at 12:46 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
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.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 10:27 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
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.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2022 at 6:52 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak and Gray News staff
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.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 2:38 PM CST
|By Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
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.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2022 at 12:44 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak and John Chapman
Dr. Lindsay Huse on Tuesday issued a temporary indoor mask mandate for the City of Omaha, effective at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2021 at 3:05 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak and Debra Worley
About 500 animals were rescued from a home in Nebraska over the course of two days, according to the Nebraska Humane Society.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 1:00 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Gray News staff
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.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2021 at 12:04 PM CDT
|By Mike McKnight, Gina Dvorak and Gray News staff
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.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 3:12 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Gray News staff
Cliff Emerson, 67, of Ashland was booked on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and first-degree criminal trespassing on Sept. 12.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 2:12 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Omaha Police arrested an international flight passenger at Eppley Airfield who caused a disturbance when asked to comply with COVID-19 rules.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 4:13 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Ed Payne
The Indian rhino was found early Tuesday afternoon in front of its enclosure on a tram path, the zoo said.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2021 at 5:17 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Brent Weber
A van caught fire at a Council Bluffs gas station, causing neighbors to report an explosion Monday near 35th Street and Avenue A.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2021 at 1:26 PM CDT
|By Tara Campbell and Gina Dvorak
A Council Bluffs mom on Wednesday filed a lawsuit fighting the state’s ban on mask mandates.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2021 at 7:35 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
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.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 3:26 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Nebraska State Patrol troopers arrested two California men after locating 770 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop Wednesday near Seward.
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