The U.S. Department of the Interior announced today that it will give Clark County over $75 million in funding for three Las Vegas-area recreational facilities and an additional $3.5 million to support the county’s Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan.
Tom Brundy, an alfalfa grower in California's Imperial Valley, thinks farmers reliant on the shrinking Colorado River can do more to save water and use it more efficiently. That's why ...
A federal judge has sided again with the Biden administration and a Canadian-based mining company in a fight with environmentalists and tribal leaders trying to block a huge lithium mine in Nevada near ...
Clark County declared a fuel emergency late Friday after a leak was discovered in a pipeline that transports fuel from California to Las Vegas. "Tonight, I am declaring a state of emergency for the fuel pipeline leak impacting ...
Snowshoe and cross-country ski enthusiasts routinely feed the tiny mountain chickadees high above the north shore of the alpine lake on the California-Nevada border.
A federal judge has ordered the government to revisit part of its environmental review of a lithium mine planned in Nevada but denied opponents' effort to block the project in a ruling the developer ...
Five days after the U.S. Energy Department announced a $700 million conditional loan to an Australian mining company pursuing a lithium project in Nevada, federal land managers cited ....
A national conservation advocacy group announced today plans to sue the federal government for failing to preserve the habitat of an endangered flower species that grows on a small swath of land in ...
Just days after U.S. wildlife officials declared a Nevada wildflower endangered at the site of a proposed lithium mine, federal land managers are initiating a review of the latest project plans the ...
U.S. wildlife officials declared a Nevada wildflower endangered on Wednesday at the only place it's known to exist — on a high-desert ridge where a lithium mine is planned to help meet ...
A tiny Nevada toad at the center of a legal battle over a geothermal power project has officially been declared an endangered species after U.S. wildlife officials temporarily listed it on a rarely-used emergency basis last spring. “This ruling makes final the listing of the Dixie Valley toad,” the U.S. Fish and ...
By Felicia Fonseca and Kathleen Ronayne, Associated Press
The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River in the first sign of what could lead to ...
The unusual circumstances that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the Endangered Species Act in 1978 have not surfaced much since then. But the stage is being set in Nevada for ...
The population of a critically endangered species at Devils Hole has reached a 19-year high after waves caused by an earthquake in Mexico cleared away organic matter so that scientists could more accurately see and count fish, according to a release from Death Valley National Park.
Classic car enthusiasts like Tony Moffett are bracing for a change in state law going into effect Jan. 1 that will require owners of classic rods and vehicles to provide proof of car insurance and pass a smog check.