The city will distribute 100 trees to residents on Saturday.
Alan Halaly
Water Reporter
Email: ahalaly@reviewjournal.com
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Alan Halaly started covering water and environmental issues at the Las Vegas Review-Journal in January 2024. He hails from Florida, where he served as editor-in-chief of the University of Florida’s student-run newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator. His work has been recognized by the Hearst Journalism Awards, the Online News Association and the Society of Environmental Journalists. Throughout his career, he has reported across many beats for the Miami Herald, NPR-affiliate WUFT, The Daily Beast and the Miami New Times.
From Lake Mead to Lake Tahoe, plenty of water bodies are sprinkled across Nevada and are suitable for boating.
The Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians’ Snow Mountain Reservation northwest of Las Vegas could be expanded if a bill gains traction.
Rangers considered using a rescue helicopter from a nearby naval base but deemed it too dangerous a mission.
A hotly contested solar project that straddles the Nye-Clark County line received its final federal permits to proceed with construction.
Despite homeowners converting 6.4 million square feet of grass last year to keep water use down, Nevada’s use swelled in 2024 compared with the previous year, according to preliminary estimates.
Conservationists called the bill co-sponsored by Rep. Mark Amodei “a shameless betrayal of the people of Nevada and the West.”
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary declined to fully shut down the idea of reopening a nuclear waste repository in Nevada at his confirmation hearing Wednesday.
Water and endangered species are the throughline in the fight to stave off lithium mining from this vulnerable area.
One of the plants directly affected is federally protected under the Endangered Species Act.
The Spring Mountains are the source of groundwater recharge for Pahrump, where residents rely on domestic wells.
The large share of money, only a fraction of the total $284 million that the Bureau of Reclamation doled out, will support the SNWA’s Water Smart Landscapes Rebate program.
Las Vegas’ water managers are waiting and watching before make any sweeping conclusions about this year’s snowpack numbers.
Along a 34-mile stretch of Nevada highway outside of Las Vegas, tortoise deaths will be kept to a minimum with new protections.
Environmentalists say the 1-inch-long butterfly could be affected by plans to build an 84-acre geothermal energy plant.