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: Mar. 23, 2023 at 5:10 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Mike McKnight
An Omaha man is facing a felony charge after he called animal control to euthanize a dog in his care that was found to be suffering from severe neglect.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 12:19 PM CDT
|By Cassie Crowe, Bella Caracta and Gina Dvorak
Nebraska lawmakers on Thursday voted to advance LB574, which would ban gender-affirming care for youth.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 10:25 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium welcomed another zoo baby over the weekend.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 6:33 PM CDT
|By Cassie Crowe and Gina Dvorak
Debate is finally underway on LB574, the bill that brought the Nebraska Legislature to a halt for weeks.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2023 at 11:38 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
USA Today has bestowed three Reader’s Choice Awards on two favorite local attractions.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 10:39 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Officials in a county near the southern border of Nebraska say they’re investigating the destruction of a communications tower there.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 5:59 PM CST
|By Cassie Crowe and Gina Dvorak
Nebraska hospitals are getting crowded again, but not because people are getting sicker. It’s actually because they’re getting better — but have nowhere they can go to receive necessary continued care.
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: Feb. 3, 2023 at 3:54 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
The police department on Friday released a detailed timeline of Tuesday’s active shooter scene at a west Omaha Target store.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 2:41 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Former Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is now officially a U.S. Senator.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 9:22 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak and Brian Mastre
It’s official: Former Gov. Pete Ricketts is heading to Washington, D.C., to become Nebraska’s next senator.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 2:28 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Gov. Jim Pillen will announce his pick for Nebraska’s next Senator on Thursday morning.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 12:35 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak and Brian Mastre
One week into the new legislative session, and many senators are picking up where they left off last year: Abortion is back on Nebraska’s legislative agenda.
Updated: Jan. 8, 2023 at 1:35 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
A crowd of about 3,500 people gathered Saturday night at CHI Health Center arena to celebrate Jim Pillen at the new governor’s inaugural ball.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 11:13 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak and Brian Mastre
Nebraska has a new governor. Gov. Jim Pillen was sworn in as the state’s 41st governor Thursday afternoon in the legislative chamber.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 12:38 PM CST
|By Cassie Crowe, Brian Mastre and Gina Dvorak
The Nebraska Legislature began its new session Wednesday with several new members, a new incoming Republican governor, and nearly $1 billion in cash.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 6:19 PM CST
|By Brian Mastre, Mike McKnight and Gina Dvorak
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said a body has been found — but not yet identified — as their investigation into the disappearance of Cari Allen continues.
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: Oct. 31, 2022 at 10:55 PM CDT
|By Brian Mastre and Gina Dvorak
The University of Florida Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse as the next UF president.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 6:53 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Last week’s dismissal of Scott Frost from his position as head coach of the Huskers football team is costing millions more than it would have had that decision been shelved for three more weeks.
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. 17, 2022 at 5:36 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
The CDC is working to confirm that the death was caused by primary amebic meningoencephalitis after the child went swimming in the river on Sunday.
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. 27, 2022 at 12:40 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday announced her selection of a state appeals court judge for the Iowa Supreme Court.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2022 at 10:04 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
With Mike Flood sworn into Congress to serve out the remainder of Jeff Fortenberry’s term, Gov. Pete Ricketts took applications for the newest Nebraska state senator representing.
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. 13, 2022 at 4:36 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium has some big news — again!
Updated: Jul. 12, 2022 at 11:04 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Brian Mastre
Officials in Iowa are stepping up efforts to prevent fentanyl abuse and drug trafficking by encouraging Iowans to be vigilant about how the drug makes its way into communities in Iowa and Nebraska.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2022 at 7:55 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Gov. Pete Ricketts said Wednesday that he would support certain exceptions within an abortion ban should the Nebraska legislature pass one during a special session that hasn’t yet been called.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 9:59 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Brian Mastre
As voters across the state cast their ballots or prepare to do so on Tuesday, there’s one race on the ballot for Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District that, on paper, presents a conundrum for those voters.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 4:40 PM CDT
|By Brian Mastre and Gina Dvorak
A reversal of Roe v. Wade could prompt the Unicameral to reconvene and again address an issue lawmakers voted down last month.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 5:44 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
A month after former Congressman Jeff Fortenberry was found guilty of lying to the FBI, his attorneys have filed a motion for acquittal.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 10:19 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
A group of Nebraska state senators has launched a fund to support “survivors and witnesses of Charles Herbster’s sexual misconduct.”
Updated: Apr. 22, 2022 at 4:17 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Charles Herbster, a Republican candidate for Nebraska governor, filed a lawsuit Friday against State Sen. Julie Slama in Johnson County.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2022 at 3:30 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Google on Thursday announced a major investment in the Omaha metro area, unveiling plans to build a new data center near State Street and Blair High Road.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2022 at 3:40 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Charles Herbster, a Republican candidate for Nebraska governor, said during a news conference Wednesday that allegations of sexual misconduct made against him last week were nothing more than “a smear campaign.”
Updated: Apr. 19, 2022 at 10:16 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
Former President Trump is coming to Nebraska next week.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 2:38 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Ashly Richardson
It’s part of a coordinated regional effort to provide humanitarian support there to the country under attack by Russia.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2022 at 11:44 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak
A Papillion man facing several charges of animal neglect was booked into Sarpy County Jail on Wednesday, months after hundreds of animals — dozens of them dead — were removed from his home.
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. 8, 2022 at 3:30 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Three dozen active-duty airmen filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for Air Force service members.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2022 at 6:15 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
The Sarpy County Attorney’s office on Monday announced that the man facing a potential death penalty sentence in a fatal shooting at a Bellevue Sonic has pled guilty to all charges.
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: Feb. 23, 2022 at 4:54 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
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Updated: Feb. 16, 2022 at 12:04 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
The Douglas County Health Department announced Wednesday that the Omaha mask mandate has been lifted.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2022 at 10:43 AM CST
|By Brian Mastre and Gina Dvorak
The judge in the Omaha mask mandate case on Tuesday narrowed the list of 13 defendants named in the lawsuit filed last month by the State of Nebraska.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2022 at 11:28 AM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Citing falling COVID-19 hospitalizations in the past week, Nebraska Medicine announced Friday that it would, on Monday, roll back its Crisis Standards of Care plan.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2022 at 1:17 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak
Gov. Pete Ricketts plans to announce an assistance program for Nebraska homeowners during a Tuesday afternoon news conference.
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