It’s the latest in a long history of water rights disputes between the states that have been left increasingly dry by climate ...

Website offers educational stories, enhanced monitoring of the river that flows through Denver. Editor’s note: This is a collaborative story from water quality experts at the U.S. Environmental ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in coordination with the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program, plans to implement a “North Platte Chokepoint Test Flow Release” using Environmental ...

LINCOLN - Award-winning conservation photographer, and co-founder of the Platte Basin Timelapse (PBT) project, Michael Forsberg has spent years discovering many of the hidden places and species in ...

LINCOLN, Neb. | Record drought is causing Nebraska's Platte River to dry up, and that's threatening the water supply for the state's second-largest city of Lincoln.

The Platte River experienced below-average flows last summer, which have lasted through this spring. The river helps feed groundwater wells serving both cities and farms across the area.

After another year of drought, the Platte River water is flowing once again. The water spike in the Grand Island area comes from Johnson Lake. The water was released around 8 a.m. Monday ...