Five-year projections, which the Bureau of Reclamation releases three times a year, are showing that snowpack may have boosted Lake Mead.
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Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, cast Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and threw their support behind Pres. Joe Biden during an event in Las Vegas Wednesday.
District Judge Joanna Kishner ordered Meta to provide more information to the state of Nevada on its policies regarding children on its platforms.
GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown said he opposes Yucca Mountain, following pressure on both sides after audio captured his support for the nuclear waste repository.
Officials broke ground in Las Vegas’ Historic Westside for a College of Southern Nevada facility designed to help people get into high-demand industries.
More than 70 percent of state residents believe Nevada’s water supply is a serious problem, according to a poll.
The reservation located on the Nevada-Idaho border is building a new school that will replace an old school tribal leaders believe caused multiple cancer deaths.
Students get the day off from school for Nevada Day on the last Friday in October instead of Nevada’s actual day of statehood, Oct. 31 (Halloween). But why?
The Moapa Educational Support Center, located on the reservation of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, has been working to raise awareness and bring more students and teachers to the building.
Rising temperatures have sapped more than 10 trillion gallons of water from the Colorado River over the last two decades, a recent study shows.
Children must now be 5 years old by Aug. 1 to attend kindergarten in Nevada’s public schools.
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.
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.
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.