The wholesale water supplier is rolling out its new ad campaign — “There’s Nothing Sexier than Saving Water” — this week to coincide with Tuesday’s start of the fall watering schedule, which limits irrigation use to three assigned days per week through Oct. 31.
It was expected to take at least a week, but the emergency roundup of wild horses in the mountains outside Las Vegas is already two thirds of the way to its goal of 200 animals after the first three days.
Fisheries are drying up and fields lie fallow as the lingering drought takes its toll in Northern Nevada, where the lack of water needed to support rural livelihoods is causing tension between neighbors.
Federal authorities announced plans Friday to round up as many as 200 wild horses to save them from starvation in the mountains outside of Las Vegas.
Backers of an initiative petition seeking to quash a $1.4 billion tax package passed by the 2015 Legislature have filed a pre-emptive lawsuit asking a judge to declare that the referendum does not violate the single-subject rule before supporters begin gathering signatures to put it on the ballot.
Nevada has prevailed along with a dozen other states in stopping a new EPA rule that would have greatly expanded the scope of waters covered by the Clean Water Act.
Rogue firearm teachers blemish the integrity of Nevada’s concealed weapon permit, other instructors said Thursday as they urged a law enforcement panel to do more to root out and crack down on instructors who don’t adhere to course mandates.
Arizona is essentially firing the private company that operates a Northwest Arizona state prison that has struggled with high-profile problems such as an inmate escape that led to a double-homicide five years ago, the murder of an inmate in January and extensive rioting.
The decomposing remains of a woman were found in Kingman, Ariz., in a hilly, desert area south of Radar Hill on Sunday morning.
