Advocates with Make the Road Nevada on Monday called on President Joe Biden’s administration to expand the DACA program.
Politics and Government
Sam Brown criticizes Rosen for voting to require women to sign up for the military draft. There hasn’t been a draft since the Vietnam War.
The deal was met with concern from SEIU Local 1107 members and others who spoke in public comment. Union members rallied in front of the county government building.
Following the Supreme Court ruling overturning a ban on bump stocks, Sen. Jacky Rosen joined in on a bill to ban the gun accessory.
President Joe Biden says that former President Donald Trump pushed for bleach injections during COVID. The problem: He’s wrong.
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.
Nevada is the first state in the nation to give a local water agency the power to limit individual home water use.
Nevada, California and Arizona have reached agreement on a plan to dramatically reduce water use along the Colorado River.
A bill that advocates pitched as a major step toward fixing Nevada’s growing groundwater problem was all but dead in the state Legislature on Friday.
The Nevada Assembly voted 30-12 in favor of a wide-ranging water conservation bill that could lead to caps on residential water use in Las Vegas.
If approved, the legislation would make Nevada the first state to give a local water agency permanent say over how much water residents can use.
A bill would create a new program to use satellite imagery to estimate how much water is lost to evapotranspiration from crops.
“Disastrous conditions have reshaped Lake Mead National Recreation Area’s one and a half million acres of incredible landscapes and slowly depleted the largest reservoir in the United States,” the senators wrote in a letter to the National Park Service.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority is evaluating whether changes need to be made to its lowest intake straw in order to protect water quality as Lake Mead continues to shrink.