That route cuts further east then runs parallel with the existing Keystone pipeline for about 95 miles, with a 30-mile detour in Seward County. It would impact about 40 new landowners, many of them in ...

TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, has unveiled its new route for the controversial leg that President Obama's administration nixed. The new route bypasses the environmentally ...

If TransCanada still wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline on its newly approved route through Nebraska, the company might have to go through Dennis Witzel first. Witzel, a retired mail carrier, isn ...

Notable events in the dispute over the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which is slated to run from Canada to U.S. refineries in the Gulf Coast. The U.S. State Department issues a presidential permit for a ...

The second factor Heineman considered in looking at the proposed pipeline route was the economic impact of building the pipeline through Nebraska with the temporary jobs it would create. It has been ...

As TransCanada Inc. weighs its next step in the fight over building the Keystone XL oil pipeline, Nebraska opponents say they are prepared if the battlefield shifts to the Public Service Commission.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman approved a new route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Tuesday that avoids the state’s environmentally sensitive Sandhills region. The Republican ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman approved a new route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Tuesday that avoids the state’s environmentally sensitive Sandhills region. The Republican ...

FORT RANSOM, N.D. — The Keystone Pipeline has spilled oil into a field near Fort Ransom. The amount of crude oil that may have spilled has not yet been determined. Bill Suess, spill investigation ...

There’s a stubbornness to author Ken Ilgunas that has served him well. With the grim realization that he was saddled with $32,000 in student loans, he paid it down by working odd jobs in Alaska for ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — An energy company's agreement to shift an oil pipeline away from the environmentally sensitive Sandhills will help avoid several possible legal conflicts over Nebraska's authority to ...

TransCanada files paperwork to expand the existing Keystone pipeline with a new Keystone XL route. The pipeline would extend from Canada's tar sands through Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska, where ...