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.
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Residents of the Lytle Ranch community in Moapa see their roads flood nearly every time it rains, but seeking help from the county has proved fruitless.
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.
Experts say the legislation to close the transfer tax loophole will not result in a significant increase in the payments.
If the bill were to become law, Nevada would be the first state to give a water agency the power to cap the amount of water that flows into individual homes.
The conservative policy analyst announced his 2024 bid for the U.S. House seat held by Democratic Rep. Susie Lee.
Nevada may join an interstate compact that would award Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate winning the most votes nationwide.
Former Attorney General Adam Laxalt is heading the political action committee encouraging Ron DeSantis to run for president.
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.
A massive deluge of water is being released from the Glen Canyon Dam this week.
DETR said there has been an estimated $1.4 billion in overpayments, and about $644 million were fraudulent while $784 million was attributed to non-fraud improper payments.
Candida auris cases in Southern Nevada “have been alarmingly trending in the wrong direction,” the delegation states in a letter to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
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.
The incident marked the second such case in which a mother suspected of being intoxicated tried to pick up her child from an elementary school, officials said.