Given the scope of both legal and scientific elements of groundwater, understanding the slew of terminology can be daunting.

ALLIANCE — Box Butte County commissioners have appointed a former U.S. attorney for Nebraska as their interim county attorney.

Initial location: Butte County, Calif. Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: Rose A new wildfire was reported today at 12:35 a.m. in Butte County, California. Rose Fire has been burning on private land.

Initial location: Butte County, Calif. Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: Orange A new wildfire was reported today at 2:53 p.m. in Butte County, California. Orange Fire has been burning on private land.

Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: Fourteenth A new wildfire was reported today at 6:19 p.m. in Butte County, California. Fourteenth Fire has been burning on private land.

Hawk Fire, a wildfire in Butte County, burned about 2 acres on Tuesday afternoon, but its forward motion was stopped and the evacuation warning has been lifted.