Children must now be 5 years old by Aug. 1 to attend kindergarten in Nevada’s public schools.
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto plans to introduce legislation to build the pipeline through the national conservation area.
An error by SNWA, combined with pushback to a “nonfunctional turf” ban could leave the Las Vegas Valley short of the water savings it needs to continue growing without increasing its overall water use.
After dropping more than 50 feet since 2000, latest forecasts show Lake Mead rising by roughly 22 feet by the end of the year.
On Friday, the coalition celebrated the area’s permanent protection through its designation as a national monument.
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.
Teachers told Nevada legislators a law has hindered their ability to immediately deal with disruptive and violent students.
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.
Superintendents and the state’s charter authority must appear at a meeting within 30 days to detail how they’d use the proposed funding, officials say.
In the latest Conservation in the West Poll, low river levels was ranked as the most serious concern by Nevadans, ahead concerns over the rising costs of living and gas prices.
Anna Scott, a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, was killed one year ago. Her family is still waiting for answers.
The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation traces a plume of hydrocarbons to a former maintenance facility, and is asking the Legislature for money to build a new school in another location.
The water authority’s board of directors voted unanimously for $37 million for the Garnet Valley Water Transition System project, a series of pipelines that will bring water to the industrial park.