Henderson and North Las Vegas soon will be able to sponsor and oversee charter schools, after the Nevada Department of Education gave its blessing this week.
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A political action committee says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ineligible to appear on the November ballot unless he resubmits his petition to comply with Nevada law.
The Department of Interior announced a $700 million investment in water conservation projects in the Lower Colorado River Basin.
Lithium abounds in Nevada’s federal lands and could hold the key to moving away from fossil fuels. But some worry about the environmental impact of lithium mining.
County fair horse races in White Pine and Elko counties are among rural Nevada’s most important tourism events.
An environmental group claims the federal government failed to protect a critical desert tortoise habitat in Southern Nevada.
A rare tiny butterfly found only in a remote stretch of Northern Nevada is inching closer to federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.
A Henderson-based nonprofit will use a grant from the state to develop a new incentive package aimed at encouraging businesses moving to Nevada to limit their water use.
The high court heard arguments over water rights in a case that could set significant precedent for how the driest state in the nation manages the precious resource.
The water authority wants to pay Southern Nevadans to plant shade trees to maintain and grow the region’s tree canopy.
The Bureau of Land Management has formally paused a plan to drill for lithium near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, which is inhabited by federally protected species.
Democrats controlling both chambers of the Nevada Legislature went into this year’s session with lofty environmental goals, but some bills died without a vote.
Nevada is the first state in the nation to give a local water agency the power to limit individual home water use.
A bill that would give the SNWA the power to limit water use in single-family homes in the Las Vegas Valley was approved by the state Senate.
As much as one-third of Nevada’s normal share of the Colorado River would stay in Lake Mead, but officials say Las Vegas has been getting ready for this for years.