“The common cause that we have to address is climate change induced lower flows,” commission Chair Anne Castle said. “That’s what we have to work on together. It’s not an enemy that we can defeat. It’s one that we have to live with.”
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The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds.
Nobody won the $430 million Mega Millions jackpot Friday.
The U.S. Census Bureau crowned Nevada the nation’s fastest-growing state in 2018, and the Silver State ranked second in 2017 and 2016.
The parcels were bought by the park service for $224,600 from the Mojave Desert Land Trust, a California nonprofit that buys land for conservation purposes.
The University of Nevada, Reno will not expel or fire Peter Cvjetanovic, a UNR student identified as a marcher in a Friday white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the university’s president said.
National Park Service extends comment period for Zion National Park’s conceptual visitor-use plan through Friday.
In a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, members of the all-GOP Congressional Western Caucus, including Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei, urge the reduction or repeal of 19 of the 22 national monuments currently under review.
Nevada is one of just eight states that saw a slight increase in income inequality from 2014 to 2015, according to new census data that raise questions about the evenness of the state’s economic recovery.
The National Park Service now says it could take until 2019, or later, to reopen Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley National Park after the early 20th century mansion was damaged by a historic deluge in October that engineers are now calling a “probable maximum flood event.”
A Utah judge said Friday that hundreds of people living in Warren Jeffs’ polygamous sect on the Utah-Arizona border who have collectively failed to pay millions in occupancy fees for their houses should be evicted.
A giant thermometer rising from the Southern California desert will once again be a beacon for tourists headed to and from Las Vegas.