Five-year projections, which the Bureau of Reclamation releases three times a year, are showing that snowpack may have boosted Lake Mead.
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Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, cast Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and threw their support behind Pres. Joe Biden during an event in Las Vegas Wednesday.
District Judge Joanna Kishner ordered Meta to provide more information to the state of Nevada on its policies regarding children on its platforms.
GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown said he opposes Yucca Mountain, following pressure on both sides after audio captured his support for the nuclear waste repository.
Officials broke ground in Las Vegas’ Historic Westside for a College of Southern Nevada facility designed to help people get into high-demand industries.
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.
The Elko County Board of Health is scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss and consider placing a moratorium on COVID-19 and flu vaccines in the county.
The group that stages the famous annual Black Rock Desert event says the federal approval of the geothermal project ignored its potential harms.
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.