Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
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Five-year projections, which the Bureau of Reclamation releases three times a year, are showing that snowpack may have boosted Lake Mead.
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.
Henderson and North Las Vegas filed a petition in March challenging a policy change that affected nonvoting school board members’ power during meetings.
District Judge Joanna Kishner ordered Meta to provide more information to the state of Nevada on its policies regarding children on its platforms.
More than 70 percent of state residents believe Nevada’s water supply is a serious problem, according to a poll.
Rising temperatures have sapped more than 10 trillion gallons of water from the Colorado River over the last two decades, a recent study shows.
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.
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.
The Las Vegas Valley Water District is expected to adopt a new rate structure so big users pay more when they use more water.