The project by a Sweden-based energy company would have built more than 200 turbines, each the height of a skyscraper, along a 22-mile stretch of desert west of Searchlight.
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The National Park Service expects to spend about $25 million to move marinas and extend boat launch ramps if Lake Mead continues to shrink in the coming years, according to a new low-water plan released Thursday.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority’s low-lake-level pumping station, a $650 million safety net for a community that draws 90 percent of its drinking water from Lake Mead, will be flooded sometime next week.
A UNLV geology professor recently identified fossilized tracks from a primitive reptile on a fallen slab of rock along one of Grand Canyon National Park’s best-known trails.
Henderson is slated to be home to a new Google data center in December 2020.
State is home to enough old mines and other former industrial sites to accommodate the new solar, wind and geothermal plants that would enable it to reach the 50 percent renewable energy standard, an analysis shows.
An Indian Springs man has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for breaking into a National Park Service site in Nye County and disturbing the only home for one of the world’s rarest types of fish.
Researchers counted 187 of the inch-long, neon-blue fish during a population survey late last month in the water-filled cavern 90 miles west of Las Vegas that they call home.
A developer shrouded in secrecy is building a massive data center in Henderson.
Herbicide treatments, set to begin Tuesday, will target red brome and other nonnative grasses at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and three other sites that have been slow to recover since being scorched by wildfires.
The annual Astronomy Festival at Great Basin National Park drew hundreds of attendees, including some from as far as North Carolina, who took in breathtaking views of the night sky over three days.
An experimental sailplane built by the Minden-based Perlan Project team soared to a new unofficial world altitude record for engineless flight on Sunday, then broke that record by climbing to an altitude of 63,776 feet two days later.
A new stretch of Interstate 11 near Boulder City that opened this month has one overpass and three underpasses for wildlife. A similar project effectively eliminated collisions between cars and sheep on U.S. Highway 93 in Arizona.
Congress designated portions of the Amargosa, which originates in Nevada, and seven other California rivers as wild and scenic in 2009, but the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management never completed management plans.
Over the past century, the number of bird species has fallen by an average of 43 percent at survey sites across an area larger than New York state, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
The Las Vegas Strip casino introduced a new tier in its loyalty program, and visitors will need to reach at least that tier to receive unlimited free parking.
Harry Reid International Airport said its parking was in “high demand” this weekend, and expected Terminal 1 long term and economy parking to be at capacity.
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