It’s 82 miles wide with bookend towns of Overton and Chapman going from west to east across Nebraska. The stretch of the ...

Each spring, the Platte River Valley in central Nebraska becomes the backdrop for one of North America’s largest wildlife migrations as more than a million sand ...

Birdwatchers have a rare chance to witness thousands of the towering birds gather in wetlands and fields of the Platte River Valley.

As wildfires continue to burn up the state, the impacts of these natural disasters extend far beyond the ag sector and the ...

A record number of sandhill cranes gathered in Nebraska in mid-March during their annual spring migration. Matt Urbanski / Crane Trust Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes are once again flocking ...

George Archibald, the world’s leading crane conservationist, has traveled to Nebraska every March — with 1 exception — since ...

We were there for a close-up view of one of North America’s greatest wildlife spectacles: the annual spring gathering of more ...

A flock of Sandhill Cranes flies over Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, Nebraska, on March 21, 2025. (© Leesa Goodson via Courthouse News) GIBBON, Neb. (CN) — Before dawn on a recent Friday, thousands of ...

A KETV producer recently went to central Nebraska to see the sandhill crane migration.Matt Brown shared video of his experience in Gibbon at the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary.Brown ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - Each year, thousands of visitors flock to Greater Nebraska to view the majestic return of the Sandhill Crane. The sights and sounds are familiar to residents of the region, ...

Every year, Nebraska’s Platte River becomes a corridor of motion and sound as sandhill cranes arrive from the south. By mid- to late February 2026, the first birds are likely to be circling low over ...