A massive deluge of water is being released from the Glen Canyon Dam this week.
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Calls to the Nevada Department of Wildlife about wildlife encounters saw a 657% increase from 2018 to 2019.
The U.S. Drought Monitor says storms dropped so much water this winter that less than one-quarter of Nevada remains in drought.
Stacker compiled data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information to detail the temperature changes over the past 120 years across every state except Alaska and Hawaii.
The two proposals show that “the tools available to the federal government are very blunt,” said John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Visitors came from near and far Thursday to Logandale to see the livestock, watch the shows and eat the food at this year’s Clark County Fair and Rodeo.
Since the 1980s, Southern Nevada has been banking its unused Colorado River water, storing hundreds of billions of gallons away underground and in Lake Mead.
Years after officials shut down a Nye County boarding school, another facility on the same property is facing allegations that have led to fines and criminal charges.
While most coyote sightings are harmless, the Nevada Department of Wildlife says it’s important for residents to discourage coyotes presence in neighborhoods.
Michael Durmeier, 39; his fiancee, Lauren Starcevich, 38; and his daughter Georgia, 12, died in the crash on March 27, 2021.
Mojave Max, who emerges from his burrow every spring, is a popular desert tortoise in Southern Nevada.
Nevada gets less than a 2 percent cut from the Colorado River’s waters, but the state actually uses far more water than that each year.