Published Sunday July 18, 2010
BY MARY GARRIGAN
RAPID CITY JOURNAL

WHITECLAY, Neb. — Business is booming in Whiteclay, and it’s not just the 4.6 million cans of beer sold there last year.

Many people know Whiteclay as the small, unincorporated village on the border of Nebraska and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, a tiny spot on the map with a big alcohol problem. It’s where four beer stores sold 191,649 cases of beer in 2009, according to the Nebraska Liquor Commission. That translates into about 4.6 million cans. (more…)

Published Friday May 7, 2010
BY TIMBERLY ROSS (The Associated Press)
RAPID CITY JOURNAL

OMAHA – Sheridan County has agreed to pay $100,000 to a grieving mother and improve suicide-prevention policies at its jail as part of a settlement over deaths there, an attorney in the case announced Thursday. (more…)

Published Tuesday April 27, 2010
BY PAUL HAMMEL
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD

LINCOLN — Officials hope a weekend cleanup in the notorious border town of Whiteclay, Neb., will lead to more cleanups and a renewed effort to increase law enforcement. (more…)

Published Sunday April 25, 2010
BY KEVIN ABOUREZK
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

WHITECLAY – Jack Andersen pulled beer cans and plastic bottles from a flooded ditch Saturday, trying to make a dent in the pile of garbage that had collected for untold months and years in a neglected corner of this village near Pine Ridge, S.D. (more…)

Published Monday March 1, 2010
BY  JoANNE YOUNG
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

In a session in which money matters, a debate by the Legislature on a proposal for dealing with Whiteclay alcohol sales came down ultimately to that question.

Senators advanced a bill (LB1002) Monday to second-round debate, but suggested taking out the $250,000 that would have been promised from the general fund to begin solving alcohol-related problems in the Whiteclay area. (more…)

Published Wednesday June 3, 2009
SHERIDAN COUNTY JOURNAL STAR, Gordon, Neb.

Sheridan County has the distinction of raising more tax revenue from the sale of alcohol than the rest of the counties in the state of Nebraska combined. The source of this revenue is the tiny town of White Clay population 17. A one mile stretch of road immediately south of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, White Clay is home to four beer stores which thrive on sales from Pine Ridge residents where alcohol is prohibited.

Recently a resolution was introduced in the General Affairs Committee of the Nebraska Legislature regarding a number of issues and concerns relating to conditions in White Clay. (more…)

Published December 14, 2008
BY NANCY KELSEY
REZNET (www.reznetnews.org)

LINCOLN, Neb. — Just south of Pine Ridge, S.D., is a place that Frank LaMere calls Nebraska’s “dirty little secret.” (more…)

Published Thursday September 6, 2007
BY NATE JENKINS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LINCOLN, Neb. — One semitrailer a week normally passes through Whiteclay, delivering enough food to fill two small grocery stores in the village, population 14, and those in a few nearby towns.

Before a recent celebration on the adjacent Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcohol is officially barred but holds one of the poorest, most alcohol-ravaged populations in the country, the food truck was outnumbered by three others that arrived the same day.

They deliver another staple of the area — beer. (more…)

Published June 3, 2006
BY KEVIN ABOUREZK
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

A coalition of activists is hoping to choke the transport of alcohol from the Nebraska village of Whiteclay to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

The plan: Starting June 28, they would set up a blockade on the reservation side of the state border to stop Whiteclay customers and confiscate their beer. (more…)

Published Tuesday June 12, 2001
BY PAUL HAMMEL
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD

Lincoln, Neb. — Two topics—allegations of overzealous law enforcement and the prospect of building a tribal nursing home near Whiteclay, Neb.—dominated a meeting about solving problems associated with massive beer sales at the border village.

In response to the problems, the Nebraska State Patrol has stepped up traffic stops and roadblocks near Whiteclay, where four beer-only liquor stores sell 4 million cans a year to residents of the officially dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation just across the South Dakota border. (more…)