Horse bones found in Gypsum Cave in the 1930s were so well preserved they were mistaken for modern equines and filed away in museums. Now they have helped identify a new type of extinct, stilt-legged horse that vanished eons ago.
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The public comment period is now open for anyone with something to say about the Air Force’s plans to expand its vast training range and close off more of Desert National Wildlife Refuge north of Las Vegas.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., on Tuesday said President Donald Trump’s tax reform plan should set aside 5 percent of funding for transportation projects and infrastructure that will accommodate the next generation of “smart” vehicles.
Members of a scuba group for wounded veterans joined National Park Service divers at Lake Mohave this week to explore submerged historical sites in the Colorado River lake.
The Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada is abandoning its longtime camp in the mountains west of Las Vegas, in part because of restrictions placed on the property to protect the endangered Mount Charleston blue butterfly.
The Strip was hit by “An Inconvenient Truth” Friday, as former Vice President Al Gore opened the National Clean Energy Conference in Las Vegas with an alarming vision of an unfolding global climate crisis.
Opponents of the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s plan to siphon groundwater in eastern Nevada and pipe it to the Las Vegas Valley fill slate for public comment at end of first week of the state engineer’s hearing.
Government scientists on Friday released a dozen members of a threatened tortoise species into a conservation area about 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas in a bid to “jump start” the existing population.
Kyle Canyon residents are being warned about their drinking water after elevated levels of lead turned up in samples collected from a handful of homes on Mount Charleston.
But in ruling against lawsuit filed by local governments, tribes and environmental groups, federal judge orders Bureau of Land Management to develop plan to repair environmental damage caused by the $15 billion project.
The ephemeral structure is being built entirely out of Ponderosa pine trees killed within the past six months by drought and beetle infestation in the Sierra Nevada range in California.
Several hundred billion gallons of water has vanished from federal forecasts for Lake Mead over the past two months, but Bureau of Reclamation officials insist there’s no reason to panic.
But climate change poses dire long-term threat to source of 90 percent of Las Vegas Valley’s water, new research indicates.
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