A 23-year-old man who died after falling into an irrigation gate structure in North Platte was a recent University of Nebraska graduate, the university confirmed Monday. Matthew Bruining earned his ...

OSGOOD — New Sweden Irrigation District members insisted on retaining their heritage while modernizing a major head gate near Osgood. When engineers advised them to tear down the 127-year-old Great ...

Wes Miller, supervising engineering technician with the Turlock Irrigation District, demonstrates a canal gate that greatly increases the accuracy of water measurement to comply with a 2009 state law.

A new $900,000 head gate is modernizing the New Sweden Irrigation District in eastern Idaho. It replaces a 127-year-old structure that withstood a devastating flood when the Teton Dam burst in 1976.

It was a bittersweet moment for employees of New Sweden Irrigation District to open the 128-year-old Great Western Canal head gate one last time recently. Directors of the district, based near Osgood, ...

SAN LUIS — When the water is flowing down from the mountains, Joe Lobato wakes up most mornings and drives from his home in San Luis to his fields spread across the valley where his family has farmed ...