As the spring snowmelt begins in Wyoming and Colorado, Nebraska irrigators using surface water from the North Platte River can expect their full allotments, according to irrigation officials. From the ...

NORTH PLATTE — Weather forecasters have issued a flood warning along the swollen North Platte River in west-central Nebraska, even as more rain is predicted. Forecasters say the river is at its ...

OGALLALA - Lake McConaughy is Nebraska's ocean. When full, the lake stretches west for 22 miles from Kingsley Dam to where it meets the North Platte River, the source of most of its water. The lake is ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Authorities have evacuated some homes along the North Platte River in eastern Nebraska because of flooding concerns. The Beacon View neighborhood and Linoma Beach campground near ...

No state is more closely associated with our country’s early westward migration than Nebraska, home to some of the landmarks most frequently noted in emigrant diaries. Jail Rock, Courthouse Rock, ...

You’d think that having water in a river is a good thing. But that’s not the case near Clarks, Nebraska, this month. A stretch of the Platte River that sometimes runs dry in the winter is backing out ...

Platte River Road from the Nebraska Highway 79 intersection in North Bend to the 23rd Street intersection in Fremont is now open to all traffic, Mick Jacobs with the Nebraska Department of ...