Raging wildfires in Southwest U.S. continue to damage properties and threaten lives. The states of Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico and Colorado are all experiencing wildfires with one person reported dead in Nebraska. New Mexico...
Amid growing concerns about the negative effects of climate change, Following historic levels of rainfall and flooding, the governor of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts, has officially declared certain counties disaster areas as officials...
The Ogallala aquifer, one of the world's largest underground bodies of water upon which many ecosystems and communities in the American West depend, is in rapid decline due to over-exploitation of its resources...
Nebraska just gave the go-ahead for Keystone XL, allowing TransCanada to clear the last regulatory hurdle for the hotly contested oil pipeline. After a nine-year battle, TransCanada can move forward with the project against...
Nebraska regulators will decide Monday on the last major regulatory hurdle facing the project. Here’s what you need to know
210,000 gallons of crude oil seeped out of the TransCanada-owned Keystone 1 pipeline this week - mere days before Nebraska's Public Service Commission (PSC) is set to make a decision on whether or not to grant a permit for...
Those who live in the Midwest United States understand how difficult it can be to eat local during winter. But for Russ Finch and his community, the task isn’t too difficult. A former mailman living in Nebraska, Finch designed...
Many Nebraska landowners are opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline slashing through their land. So they're fighting the proposed oil pipeline with clean, renewable energy. Activists launched the Solar XL campaign to install...
Many Nebraska landowners are opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline slashing through their land. So they're fighting the proposed oil pipeline with a clean, renewable tactic: solar panels. Activists have launched the Solar XL...
Landowners and activists expected to descend on town of York on Wednesday for first public meeting on proposed construction after Trump revived it
After Trump’s revival of the pipeline project, some communities along its route are preparing to fight back while others see a promise kept by the US president to ‘make America great again’...
Keystone XL pipeline developer TransCanada filed legal papers in nine Nebraska counties this week in an attempt to invoke eminent domain for the land needed to construct, operate and maintain the pipeline...
Monday’s legal pushback arrived despite a new push in Congress to wrest the decision out of Obama’s hands
Committee approval sets the stage for a clash over the controversial pipelineNebraska state supreme court could rule on proposed route as early as FridaySenator Bernie Sanders proposes rider on climate change voteObama issues...
What do you do in your spare time? Watch TV? Play basketball? Knit? If you’re David Pares of Omaha, Nebraska, you work on condensing the fabric of space time - in your garage...
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