Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nebraska understandably wants to finally tap into a water right it has held on the South Platte River for almost a century. Coloradans understandably are ...

In semi-arid desert land near the Colorado/Nebraska border, there’s been a dramatic increase in crops under pivot. Question: “Where are these junior water rights getting the water?” Historic flow ...

A producer irrigates a black turtle bean field within the South Platte River Basin of Nebraska. (Agri-Pulse photo: Jesse Campbell). The state of Nebraska is suing Colorado, escalating a dispute ...

In the spirit of Earth Day, this Sunday, April 25, will be the fourth annual South Platte River Cleanup. Registration for the event begins at 9:00, and the actual cleanup goes from 11:00 to 3:00, ...

Quick Take Up to 1 million Sandhill Cranes are expected to converge on the Platte River during the 2026 migration. Narrowing ...

New York, New York, Sept. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New York, NY — The Waterfront Alliance announced today that The River Mile: South Platte River Restoration Project in Denver, CO is the first ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska is suing Colorado over the amount of water it draws from the South Platte River, the latest in a long history of water rights disputes between the states that have been ...

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 ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday it will invest $350 million to restore a 6.5 mile stretch of the South Platte River that runs through Denver. This is part of an overall project by ...

LENOX — When I told my friend Roger that my wife and I had been invited to a wedding in Boulder, Colo., he asked if I wanted to drive to his house in Colorado Springs afterward to fish the South ...

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