In what appears to be a record-high buy for a Nebraska ranch, a roughly 40,000-acre Sandhills property with a history of ...

OMAHA (AP) — Water is being diverted from the swollen North Platte River into irrigation canals in west-central Nebraska earlier than usual this year to reduce the risk of flooding, officials said.

Migrating sandhill cranes along the Platte River at sunset in Kearney, Nebraska. When people think of epic migrations, they often picture Africa’s wildebeests thundering across the Serengeti. But one ...

The South Platte River flows east toward the Nebraska state line near Ovid, Colorado. Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images The Local newsletter is your free, daily ...

Birds gather by the thousands during sandhill crane migration. Visit central Nebraska to witness the magic of this bird ...

The Cornhusker State is blessed with gorgeous landscapes, from the Missouri and the Platte to the Panhandle, and everything in between. Some of them, however, take a little more effort to appreciate ...

Water flows on the Platte River have peaked and will start a gradual decline as Nebraska's irrigators divert more water out of the flooded river, state officials said Thursday. State and local ...

It is going to be a soggy spring for North Platte as the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District increases the amount of water released from Lake McConaughy down the North Platte River.

JULESBURG — The town hall in the far-northeastern corner of the state wasn’t billed as specific to one topic, but as soon as Colorado’s attorney general opened the floor to questions, there was ...