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.
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.
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.
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.
Roughly 75 Moapa Valley residents turned out Tuesday to hear State Engineer Jason King spell out his concerns about the Lower White River Flow System, a collection of five linked aquifers stretching from Apex north into Lincoln County.
The change by Nevada State Engineer Jason King effectively grandfathers in certain property owners who can show they had applied prior his Dec. 19 order banning new domestic groundwater wells in Nye County’s largest town.
The State Environmental Commission voted Wednesday to add “renewable energy development and storage” to the list of acceptable post-production uses for shuttered mines to encourage developers to use the already-disturbed land.
After a 90-day review of the Dixie Valley toad, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday that the rare amphibian warrants a more comprehensive 12-month study to determine if it should become Nevada’s newest listed species.
Recreation area’s YouTube video highlights the history, scenery and science that hikers encounter when they walk the Historic Railroad Trail, which traces the route built in 1931 to ferry material to the Hoover Dam construction site
A coalition of government agencies and civic groups are leading a volunteer clean-up at the Great Unconformity Interpretive Site at the base of Frenchman Mountain just off Lake Mead Boulevard.
The Saline Valley Warm Springs are just like any other attraction you might find inside a national park. Except for all the naked people. And the illegal airstrip. And the pushy gang of wild burros.
The Interior Department released revised planning documents Wednesday formalizing the Trump administration’s push to relax protections for the greater sage grouse in Nevada and 10 other states.
Reasearchers announced Wednesday that the Kilopower fission reactor performed better than expected during a 28-hour, full-power test completed on March 21 inside a vacuum chamber at the Nevada National Security Site.
Early voting begins Saturday for the June 11 primary. Here’s what you need to know.
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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