For the last few years, conservationists have fought a precedent-setting proposal to send excess water from the basin south ...

The Platte River basin, including the cities of Kearney, Columbus and Grand Island, saw heavy rain in recent days. The ...

You’re all clear to hit your favorite area river spot this weekend. Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District posted a ...

As of Friday afternoon, the Central Nebraska Irrigation District's gauge on the Platte near Grand Island was at just under 2.5 feet, down from about 5.3 feet on July 4.

It’s been a few years since the last economic impact study of the migration on Central Nebraska, but in 2017, it had a value of $14.3 million, “supporting 182 year-round equivalent jobs.” ...

Rain continues to move out of the eastern and northeastern areas this morning. In its wake is a lot of standing water across ...

Brown spent about 15 hours in a blind watching the cranes on the banks of the Platte River. The Audubon Center said about 700,000 cranes were in the area last weekend and about 300,000 will be in ...

The birds gather by the thousands along the Platte River. Sarah Kuta. Just as they’ve done for thousands of years, sandhill cranes are once again descending upon central Nebraska for their ...

A KETV producer recently went to central Nebraska to see the sandhill crane migration. ... Brown spent about 15 hours in a blind watching the cranes on the banks of the Platte River.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts in April signed legislation that, within the terms of the compact, would allow Nebraska to build a canal in Colorado to siphon water off the South Platte River.

Happily, this new water from the Platte River via Central Nebraska Public Power District’s canal system can test below 1 ppm. Though science has yet to precisely quantify this factor, ...

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts now wants to invoke the state’s 1923 South Platte River Compact with Colorado, which gave Nebraska the right to revive and finish the canal. Todd von Kampen, The ...