It was a blazing 104 degrees on the Las Vegas Strip earlier this month when Ricky Kendall and six other bus riders trudged across the Interstate 15 overpass on Flamingo Road, each clutching water bottles and shielding their faces ...
National Guard troops will be staging throughout Southern Nevada on Saturday as the area braces for what could be major to historic flooding from Hurricane Hilary. The forecast continues to project the heaviest rainfalls late Sunday and early Monday for Clark County ...
Regional Transportation Commission CEO M.J. Maynard said the vehicles were the first of 16 the commission plans to purchase by 2025 with the help of $18 million in federal funding ...
Nipton, with a population of about 20, sits on the northeast border of the Mojave National Preserve, where a wildfire has been burning out of control since Friday. The fire, sweeping across the desert floor amid scorching summer temperatures and howling winds ...
Pet owners around the valley have needed to change routines during the heat wave and vets say their clients are doing a fairly good job. Dr. Thearayouk Keo, a veterinarian at the Edge Pet Hospital in Henderson, said he’s only seen a few cases ...
Gardening in Southern Nevada is both a blessing and a curse for those possessing a green thumb. While enjoying a long growing season, desert gardeners must also nurture their plants through the searing summer ...
The Bureau of Land Management has halted a proposed lithium mining operation near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge over concerns that the drilling could impact the groundwater, the river it feeds and endangered ...
Gov. Joe Lombardo’s decision this month to withdraw Nevada from the U.S. Climate Alliance is being blasted by progressives and climate activists who warn such a move will be counterproductive to diversifying the state’s economy and energy sector at a time when climate and weather disasters have ...
Clark County residents decried the proposed path of power lines through the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, and environmental advocates said the Bureau of Land Management was ...
Lawyers for environmentalists and tribes urged a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a judge's decision to allow construction to begin on a huge lithium mine in Nevada. A lawyer for four conservation ...
The Las Vegas Tree Initiative is designed to combat the urban heat island effect by increasing tree canopy coverage and building more green space within neighborhoods hit hardest by a combination of extreme heat and ...
Dana Dolan was driving through her small Nevada hometown when she thought she had come upon a gory crash. The ground surrounding Elko's stretch of Interstate 80 looked as if it had been covered in blood. As the red color shifted and moved, she realized instead it was an infiltration of crickets, some ...
Nevada water officials came away from the 82nd state Legislature with some new regulatory powers, but legislation to address over-pumped water basins didn’t make it. The passage of Assembly Bill 220 allows the Southern Nevada Water Authority to limit water use for ...
Beekeeper Dave Sharpless went to check on one of his beehives during this June 2019 day in Henderson only to find empty, melted hives. The days of triple-degree heat during the summer months in Southern Nevada ...