06/28/11 FORT CALHOUN, Neb (Reuters) - Two Nebraska nuclear power plants have planned properly to protect themselves from the swollen Missouri River and keep the public safe, the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Monday.
06/28/11 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko, right, talks to NRC resident inspector Jeffrey Josey, left, while visiting the Nebraska Public Power District's Cooper nuclear power plant near Brownville, Neb., Sunday, June 26, 2011, to check out the measures the utility has taken to protect the plant from flooding along the Missouri River. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)
06/28/11 By Michael Avok BROWNVILLE, Neb (Reuters) - A top regulator said on Sunday that a nuclear power plant threatened by flooding from the swollen Missouri River was operating safely and according to standards. [More]
06/22/11 (AP) - Two more Missouri River flood records have been broken in southeast Nebraska, and more records are likely to fall because the amount of water being released upstream is increasing.
06/22/11 Operators of the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Neb., said they were optimistic that floodwaters will not force the plant to shut down -- at least in the next few days.
06/22/11 The National Weather Service is reporting that historic flooding along the Souris River which crosses from Canada through North Dakota has begun to overtake levees in Minot, North Dakota, creating some of the biggest floods in the area that have ever been recorded. In response to the flooding the NWS has issued a flash flood [...] North Dakota Flooding Begins To Overtake Levees, Other Parts Of ...
06/22/11 One of Nebraska's two nuclear power plants -- Fort Calhoun Station -- is surrounded by the Missouri River. The other -- Cooper Nuclear Station -- is close to shutting down. And inaccurate information and rumors on the Internet are fueling the fear.
06/22/11 Turkey has agreed that NATO can turn its airbase in Turkey into a base for ground operations into Syria. The country will become the main base in the area for the US-led military alliance's ground forces. NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen ...
06/21/11 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The Missouri River rose to within 18 inches of forcing the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska, but stopped and ebbed slightly.
06/21/11 Before the floods hit, Matthew Carver used to be able to take a single-day distribution route to Brownville, Neb., as well as parts of north Missouri.
06/21/11 KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - Flooding will force the evacuation of one-quarter of North Dakota's fourth largest city and levee breaches forced 300 residents from a Missouri town as flooding worsened on Tuesday, officials said.
06/20/11 Associated Press Iowa district struggles with water problems BOUTON -- Financially troubled Xenia Rural Water District has problems with its water, too.
06/16/11 HAMBURG, Iowa - The Missouri River levee breaches near here will likely create a brief dip in downstream water levels, but no significant change in the flood forecast is expected because massive amounts of water continue to flow down the river.
06/16/11 HAMBURG, Iowa - Construction crews on Wednesday put the final touches on a makeshift levee standing between a small Iowa town and the creeping advance of Missouri River floodwater, as communities downstream took advantage of a temporary dip in water levels to bolster their own strained defenses.
06/16/11 Floodwaters that breached a Missouri River levee near the Missouri-Iowa border are approaching a makeshift floodwall hurriedly built to protect the small Iowa town of Hamburg from the river's creeping advance.
06/16/11 Water that has been pouring through a breached Missouri River levee finally reached a makeshift barrier that is a small Iowa town's only hope of avoiding major flooding, authorities said Thursday.
06/15/11 Interstate 29 in southwest Iowa and northwest Missouri was closed Wednesday afternoon in both directions because of Missouri River flooding.
06/15/11 The Missouri River levee breaches near Hamburg will likely create a brief dip in downstream water levels, but no significant change in the flood forecast is expected because massive amounts of water continue to flow down the river.
06/15/11 Dip in water level south of Missouri River breaches won't last, as floodwater nears Iowa town
 01/05/11 A high school student shot his principal and was later found dead this afternoon in an incident at M...
12/06/10 (AP:LINCOLN, Neb.) Sales taxes will increase in three Nebraska cities on January 1. The Nebraska Department of Revenue says the rates will grow in Brownville, Curtis and Genoa in 2011. | 
