Longtime Mayor Jean Stothert has conceded and congratulated John Ewing on his historic election as Omaha’s next mayor.

Douglas County, Neb., Treasurer John Ewing Jr. (D) has ousted incumbent Republican Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert in the latest victory for Democrats during President Trump’s second term, Decision Desk

Omaha’s first female mayor has conceded the city’s mayoral race to a man who is poised to become the community’s first Black mayor.

Omaha is considered a blue dot in the red state of Nebraska and now the city will have a new Democratic mayor. John Ewing, Jr., ousted a Republican incumbent and will be the first Black mayor.

The Democrat's win over the city's three-term Republican mayor touched on national hot-button issues, a possible bellweather for the 2026 midterms.

Douglas County Treasurer John Ewing Jr. became the first Democrat to lead the largest city in Nebraska in roughly a decade. He is also the first elected Black mayor in the city’s history.

Voters in Omaha, Nebraska, have ousted three-term Republican Mayor Jean Stothert after she blanketed airwaves with anti-trans attacks during her recent bid for reelection.

Reactions have poured in locally and nationally to the historic election of John Ewing as Omaha's first Black mayor.

The bill to regulate medical marijuana, following up on an initiative voters supported in the November election, failed to make it to the second round after debate on Tuesday night. Just after 7 p.m.,

The three-term Republican mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, was ousted by a Democrat in an election upset on Tuesday night. Douglas County Treasurer John Ewing Jr., a Democrat and former deputy chief of police for Omaha, defeated Republican Mayor Jean Stothert, who was vying for a fourth term. Ewing will become Omaha's first black mayor.

Stothert conceded the race late on May 13, ending over a decade of Republican leadership in a blue-leaning area of an otherwise solidly red state of Nebraska ... upon her 2013 election to the ...