Jessica Wade
Senior reporter
Jessica Wade is an Omaha-based senior reporter with Nebraska Public Media. A native of eastern Nebraska, she previously reported on South Carolina's Lowcountry for The Post and Courier newspaper and spent four years with the Omaha World-Herald, where she covered city government and development.
Recent News Stories
- As pedestrian deaths grow across the state, Omaha continues initiative to end traffic fatalities
- Omaha police department launches ‘Drones as First Responders’ program
- ‘Legacy of trauma': Oral histories project records stories of Nebraska’s Native American boarding school
- Fundraising shortfall paused $100M Children’s Museum riverfront project
- Take a look inside Omaha’s new $158 million library
- City of Omaha extends deadline, continues talks with developer of former Civic Auditorium site
- What’s up with Omaha’s Civic Auditorium site? An ownership battle and an interested nonprofit
- ‘A new approach’: Omaha launches pilot program to address homeless encampments
- Latino Center of the Midlands’ $10M expansion aims to meet community needs
- A Nebraska food bank expected thousands of pounds of food. Cuts to a federal program meant it never arrived
- Omaha City Council votes down proposed ordinance to ban homeless encampments
- Nebraska director of Latin American Citizens group resigns amid rift with national chapter over ICE partnership discussions
- Latino civil rights group calls role in Douglas County Sheriff’s ICE proposal ‘inaccurate’
- Omaha mayor, food bank call for donations amid SNAP pause
- An ethanol plant for years polluted a Nebraska town. The health impacts still aren’t fully known
- Justice Department asks Nebraska to hand over voter data
- 170 years ago, the US Army massacred a Lakota village. Their plundered belongings are now back in Nebraska
- New townhomes rise in North Omaha with more to come
- Elkhorn elementary schools open despite ongoing construction