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Flooding 2019
Every year, many farmers and land owners along the Elkhorn River have to deal with erosion.
When flooding hit Northeast Nebraska last March, a lot of work was needed to fix the destruc…
Flood insurance can offer some relief to victims of last year's historic flooding. For many …
Coping a year after the disaster. ... You are not alone.
The state of Nebraska went through the worst floods in its history last year, and the recove…
When historic floods hit Northeast Nebraska last March, several counties witnessed entire ro…
PIERCE — Justin Koch never saw it coming.
NIOBRARA — Willard Ruzicka has lived near the Niobrara River all his life. In fact, his home…
OSMOND — The water that inundated the south end of this town of around 750 residents has lon…
VERDIGRE — The 575 citizens of Verdigre believe in being prepared. Which is why 1,000 sandba…
NIOBRARA — One year later, Laura Sucha counts her blessings every day.
LYNCH — After being overrun by the Ponca Creek last March, the village of Lynch is still in …
STANTON — Ron Gadeken of Ron’s Ag & Auto Repair in Stanton often goes out to farms to re…
Jim Craig isn’t having the best luck planning events this year.
The organizer for Angry Cow Adventures said he has had only one event so far this year that hasn’t required rescheduling or relocation.
PIERCE — At first, the water rose slowly.
Steve Dolesh and Dave Lienemann ventured out at about 6 a.m. Wednesday, March 13, to get a handle on what might be coming later in the day.
PIERCE — Questions remain in Pierce about the flood of 2019.
PIERCE — A story in the Norfolk Daily News gave Steve Dolesh the first indication that troub…
PIERCE — Salamander helped keep the chaos under control here during the flood.
In the 1960s, before a bucket load of dirt could be removed to make way for a 4½-mile canal …
PIERCE — Bring your own generator and some water or a strong love for primitive camping.
NIOBRARA — “Never could I have imagined the size of the ice glaciers. They totally encased t…
The total flood-related cost for the City of Norfolk isn’t completely clear yet, but there’s…
It’s been just over a month since the massive, historic flooding of 2019 struck parts of Nor…
LYNCH — The Nebraska Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster and its community partners w…
Residents of 12 more Nebraska counties impacted by high water and power outages due to the r…
NORFOLK — A team of Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, known as the Disaster Sur…
PIERCE — Christian Koenig had spent time eyeing the bodies of water near Premier Estates of Pierce.
High winds, lots of moisture and a thick layer of frost have posed a challenge this spring f…
With goosebumps up and down her arms and a lump in her throat, Lisa Doescher put it succinct…
Nebraska nice.
It’s more than a tourism slogan for some grateful Northeast Nebraskans.
When Bev Ferguson arrived at Liberty Centre Services in Norfolk on the morning of March 14, …
For Shane Weidner, making the call to evacuate more than 1,000 citizens on the morning of Ma…
Ministers and about 50 worshipers of various faiths came together Thursday night at the Firs…
O’Neill native Brian Hoesing was taken aback to see some of his childhood haunts wiped out b…
Directors at Liberty Center Services in Norfolk went into emergency mode on the morning of M…
Troy Uhlir's phone started ringing early in the afternoon on March 13.
BEEMER — Six inches of water and mud sits in their basement.
"We've got a lot of asphalt to fix, so we've just got to get at it," said Troy Uhlir, who wa…
In this first installment of the Faces of the Flood series, the Rev. Matt Gilmore revisits t…
It wasn't until he was sitting in the back of the Nebraska National Guard truck with flood w…
Carli Huston, a resident assistant at Northeast Community College's Path Hall, started the m…
MADISON — As if the flooding didn’t bring enough problems with washed-out roads and bridges,…
The levee around the North Fork of the Elkhorn River did its job properly during the flood l…
The Elkhorn Valley Museum in Norfolk in seeking Northeast Nebraskans’ help in preserving the…
MADISON — Ever since Old Hadar Road was closed about three weeks ago, each of the Madison Co…
It’s been about three weeks since a flood like no other in recent history hit Northeast and …
The Nebraska Department of Transportation will be holding open house meetings in communities…
I got the call from our city administrator around 6 a.m. on Thursday, March 14. He was stand…
Residents and business owners in Boone, Knox and Thurston counties, along with the Santee Si…
When storms and flooding overwhelmed Nebraska earlier this month, Eric Staman knew something…
WISNER — Until this week, Tom Feller, who heads the Feller and Co. livestock feeding operati…
LYNCH — Greg Ibach is no stranger to the power of Nebraska weather.
SCHUYLER — A burger bash fundraiser here is being planned for Saturday, April 6, to raise mo…
SPENCER — Hundreds of people remain without running water in Boyd County and they could be f…
It started out as a convoy 18 strong from northeast Ohio, and it grew as the trucks drove to…
The Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) is currently working to start repairs to th…
Water is essential to life.
Deductibles and coverage might have been the last thing on Diane Arps’ mind as she and her c…
BATTLE CREEK — A Battle Creek cooperative here received 22 tons of feed on Monday ready to b…
In the aftermath of the historic flood water levels in Norfolk earlier this month, City of N…
WAYNE — Weather permitting, work will begin the week of April 1 on Nebraska Highway 15, nort…
YANKTON — Releases from Gavins Point Dam near here were increased to 27,000 cubic feet per s…
A variety of flood cleanup supplies have been donated to Region 11, which is made up of resi…
Water contamination is a major risk to health following a flooding event, and it’s important…
A Nebraska Army National Guard helicopter crew delivered 10 round hay bales to cattle strand…
A new website has been unveiled to help connect more Nebraskans with opportunities to reques…
The North Central District Health Department and Nebraska Department of Health and Human Ser…
President Donald Trump declared a major disaster in Nebraska and ordered federal aid to supp…
At least 15 bridges on the state highway system have washed out or suffered damage, mostly i…
An extensive search Thursday morning for a Norfolk man swept away in the flood near North Fi…
NIOBRARA — Highway 14 will be open into Niobrara on Saturday, March 23, from noon to midnigh…
STANTON — The flood waters that came from the north last week and engorged the Elkhorn River…
School administrators have canceled classes at North Bend Central Public Schools indefinitel…
Rail disruptions caused by last week’s flooding could create challenges for area industries …
MADISON — This isn’t Madison County’s first major flood, but it looks as though it is the mo…
A county road that connects Norfolk and Hadar was closed Tuesday in one direction, but it re…
HADAR — Leon and Kathy Chatham are grateful to be out of their flooded house and on dry land.
Due to the devastation caused by recent flooding, the Village of Verdigre has created a Verd…
Legend has it that the Native American Indians warned the German settlers who settled in wha…
Leon and Kathy Chatham went on a wild ride Saturday.
Schools in Antelope County will be closed at least through Wednesday because about 65 percen…
As the severity of the problems caused by the flooding in rural areas become more apparent e…
The photographers and reporters at the Norfolk Daily News have spent the past week documenti…
BEEMER — Highway 275 between Wisner and Beemer is closed because a portion of one of the lan…
City of Norfolk officials and staff were working Monday to evaluate the community’s levee sy…
VERDIGRE — Verdigre continues to be in the process of recovery.
Clean-up efforts Saturday at the Harvest Church southeast of Norfolk.
Families and businesses impacted by the historic flooding in Northeast and North Central Neb…
NIOBRARA — Residents in this tourist town and the surrounding community are down, but not out.
Five years ago, the community of Wayne was hit hard by an EF-4 tornado.
Three Norfolk, Nebraska, men were injured, one fatally, when the car they were in went aroun…
UPDATE, 4:25 p.m.: Releases from Gavins Point Dam in South Dakota were reduced to 53,000 cub…
Photographer Jake Wragge was at Gilman Park and Premier Estates in Pierce on March 15, 2019,…
Photographer Jake Wragge was with Gov. Pete Ricketts and other officials to look at the dama…
The Madison County Sheriff's Office provided an update on road closures about 9:45 a.m. Monday.
It’s been quite a week for many towns in northern Nebraska.
City of Norfolk officials said both the Salvation Army and the American Cross were extremely…
The identity of a missing Norfolk man was released at a press conference late Friday afterno…
BEEMER — With the Elkhorn River out of its banks — extending through the community park and …
The worst of the immediate flooding danger seems to have passed in Norfolk and the immediate…
After several days of concerns and bad news, City of Norfolk officials provided a welcome ch…
NIOBRARA — This Northeast Nebraska village, which has been moved twice because of flooding s…
Thursday’s crest of the North Fork of the Elkhorn River blew the old record out of the water.
