The 10 best beaches in Nebraska ... no, really!
Find out the hottest spots to stay cool. Nebraska may be landlocked, but the state's waterways offer a number of places to enjoy the sand and water of a beach.
Lake Mac
Lake McConaughy has natural white sand beaches.
Calamus Reservoir
Windsurfing off Calamus Reservoir beach is popular.
Wagon Train Lake beach
Sun, sand and water lure visitors to the beach at Wagon Train Lake in 2012.
Niobrara River
A beach along the Niobrara River.
Branched Oak Lake
Hayli Spellman, 5, plays in the sand on the beach of Branched Oak Lake in 2009.
Pawnee Lake
A family recreates along a beach at Pawnee Lake State Recreation Area north of Emerald in 2010.
Brick's Beach
Catelynn Acker, 2, of Wahoo cools off in 2003 while walking along the shore of Brick's Beach at Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area.
Swanson Reservoir
Swanson Reservoir is along U.S. 34 west of McCook.
Two Rivers State Recreation Area
You can fish from the beach at Two Rivers State Recreation Area in Venice.
That project, with its strong recreation, flood control and economic development aspects, joins opportunities already identified at Lake McConaughy, Lewis and Clark Lake and Niobrara State Park on the committee's list.
Gov. Pete Ricketts announced that the state will notify Colorado that Nebraska plans to exercise its legal right to South Platte River water flow from Colorado under a 1923 compact between the states.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said his state would work to protect and "aggressively assert" its water rights in light of Nebraska's $500 million proposal to build a canal in his state to pull water from the South Platte River.
The first try at making a lake the focal point of a housing subdivision, and not a public park, was just blocks south of Fontenelle Park. And there was a lake across Underwood Avenue from Memorial Park.
A child died this week from a suspected infection that may have been acquired while swimming in the Elkhorn River, according to the Douglas County Health Department.
Andy Moore found a 90 million-year-old fossil of a Xiphactinus vertebrae while fishing. The Xiphactinus swam in the ocean that once covered Nebraska.
An analysis done by the Legislative Research Office found that the contractor appeared to “overestimate stream flows” and that its economic analysis of the project “appears to overestimate project benefits."
Chancellor Paul Turman said the increase was necessary to close "a sizable budget gap" created by inflation and increases to staffing costs.
A vote that would have put the merger of two major power districts back on track failed during a packed meeting at CNPPID headquarters in Holdrege.
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