Kiarra, left, and Cian Frieze get their photo taken with Santa at the Durham Museum, one of five stops during Sunday’s Holiday Lights Family Festival. Officer Marc Van Sickle grooms 4-year-old ...

Take a look around the Gene Leahy Mall as lights and decorations are hung ahead of the annual Holiday Lights Festival.

Holiday Lights Festival kicks off season of events around downtown Omaha Holiday Lights Festival returns to Gene Leahy Mall for the first time since 2018.

Even before the big cheer, there was plenty of holiday cheer. Christmas waiting in downtown Omaha for the holiday lights to switch on, joined in singing traditional carols and listened to *** new ...

In the Old Market, the holiday cheer doesn't come without preparation and hard work. Hundreds of thousands of lights are being put up for the season.

The city is preparing for the holiday season, and part of that is Omaha's Holiday Lights Festival. Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert and other leaders kicked off the event Tuesday morning.

Omaha officials have announced the schedule for this year's annual Holiday Lights Festival — and this one promises to be special.

"The effort in lighting downtown this year has been much better than in the past 35 years I’ve lived here," said one resident.

For the first time in three years, Omaha’s Holiday Lights Festival will again light up the Gene Leahy Mall. The downtown mall has gone through a multi-million-dollar makeover.

Omaha’s downtown Christmas lighting display, looking south on 15th Street from Douglas Street in 1950, shows the lines of lights strung across the street, and the big red plastic bells that made ...

More than 40 businesses, organizations and school groups created festive Christmas floats and cruised through the streets of downtown.

Downtown Cary's walkable holiday wonderland has been described many ways: Like a scene from a Christmas card, or a vintage Norman Rockwell painting.