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V ALENTINE, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska Game and Parks announced Friday that Smith Falls State Park’s campground is temporarily ...
Northeast Nebraska, including Niobrara, was one of the hardest areas hit in the 2019 floods. KETV returned to area to talk to residents about how they have rebuilt over the past five years.
However, ice jam flooding can happen with even less rain if the ice chunks collect and cause the river level to rise. For flash flooding to happen in a 3 hour time period, around 1.5 to 2 inches ...
Groundwater seepage creates towering ice cliffs along the Niobrara River. The cliffs, some nearly 200 feet high, are attracting climbers from Colorado and other mountain states.
The remains of the Spencer Dam after the March 2019 flood. The hydroelectric dam had stood on the Niobrara River since 1927. Ice jams right after the flooding. Laura Sucha stands inside the ...
NIOBRARA, Neb. — Surrounded by thick slabs of ice stacked up to 10 feet high, Nathan Sucha stretched a measuring tape Sunday over a gaping hole in the concrete-block wall of the Country Cafe. He ...
She didn’t think their hay meadow would ever melt. Two days after the Niobrara River rose in mid-March, Ann and Billy Kepler had stood, speechless, before their 75-acre riverside field. Normally ...
NIOBRARA, Neb. (KTIV) - Moody Motor Co., Inc., a certified Ford dealership in Niobrara, Nebraska was sentenced for accessory after the fact to a Clean Air Act violation. The U.S. Attorney’s ...
WILMINGTON, Ill. (CBS) -- Will County emergency officials are stepping up their efforts to break up ice jams on the Kankakee River – nearly 50 miles southwest of Chicago. The Will County ...
VALENTINE, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska Game and Parks announced Friday that Smith Falls State Park’s campground is temporarily closed after an ice jam on the Niobrara River broke loose Wednesday evening.