The Center for Biological Diversity argues that the state constitution prohibits former state Sen. James Settelmeyer, R-Minden, from holding a state job so soon after his term ended.
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One of the Colorado River’s two major reservoirs is expected to collect better than average runoff this year, thanks to an unusually wet La Niña pattern that dropped a deluge of snow up and down the basin.
Six out of seven Colorado River basin states have settled on a proposed set of cuts aimed at saving the crumbling river system and preventing Lake Mead and Lake Powell from crashing — with one very notable state missing from the agreement.
The Democratic-controlled Legislature may have to compromise on environmental priorities after Republican Joe Lombardo defeated former Gov. Steve Sisolak.
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.
The Bureau of Land Management issued a trespass citation after mining equipment was found on habitat for a rare flower in Northern Nevada.
The park service has extended the deadline for comments on various proposals for how to manage and maintain launch ramps for motorized boaters at Lake Mead.
The water authority on Tuesday outlined how it thinks the Colorado River basin states and the federal government can drastically cut back on water use along the dwindling Colorado next year.
“The common cause that we have to address is climate change induced lower flows,” commission Chair Anne Castle said. “That’s what we have to work on together. It’s not an enemy that we can defeat. It’s one that we have to live with.”
Things have only gotten worse along the river since Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton asked the Western states to come up with conservation plan, and that decline shows no signs of slowing down.
Republican Joe Lombardo will become Nevada’s next governor, making the leap from county sheriff to the state’s top executive office after unseating first-term Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak by a razor-thin margin.
Democrats have a statewide lead of about 9,200 votes in mail-in ballots and in-person early voting, according to secretary of state figures.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., swung through Nevada on Friday to stump for vulnerable Democrats in hopes of boosting turnout among younger voters as the Silver State wrapped up its first week of early voting.
The Review-Journal has been asking voters what they want their would-be elected officials to talk about as Election Day approaches. Here’s what they said.
Amy Tarkanian, Elliot Malin and Jason Guinasso — all of whom endorsed Democratic incumbent Attorney General Aaron Ford for re-election — are suing the executive director of the Nevada Republican Party for defamation.
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