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River water on states' agenda: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006; Professional water managers from seven states are once again flocking to Las Vegas for what may be a do-or-die meeting to hammer out recommended rules on how to deal with water shortages in the Colorado River system.
Price of water to consumers will surely rise: Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006; Population growth, environmental issues and drought are confronting the West with unprecedented water woes, but collaborative efforts can overcome the issues.
Drought-induced wate cuts would affect Nevada, Arizona: Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006; Nevada and Arizona will likely bear cuts in water that states can take from the Colorado River should there be a drought-induced reduction, a state water official said Tuesday.
Mulroy to offer money for White Pine water: Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006; For years Southern Nevada water officials have been battling for water in the state's rural counties. Today, they'll try to buy it.
Red Rock cleanup begins: Friday, Jan. 6, 2006; Cleanup work at the former gypsum mine surrounded by Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area has begun.
Decision on houses delayed by county: Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006; The question of whether a half-dozen buildings at Mount Charleston are family homes or condominiums went before the Clark County Commission on Wednesday, and commissioners promised another meeting on the issue next month.
County to rule on mountain dwellings: Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006; The strange case of the Mount Charleston six single-family homes that were each built to house eight families appears destined for clarification.
Warming raises scientists' concerns: Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006; According to the National Weather Service and the Western Climate Research Center, Las Vegas could at least tie the record for the warmest year, in average temperature, in recorded history.
State's water debate rages on: Sunday, Jan. 1, 2006; The state engineer will bring together two sharply opposed camps Thursday in Carson City for a meeting that will set the stage for future arguments over the issue of rural water for urban Las Vegas.
Thirsty, alien invader a threat: Sunday, Dec. 25, 2005; If one were to design a plant from scratch that would take over the precious wetlands of the desert Southwest, it would look something like this: It would spread rapidly, it would displace any rival species, and it would be fire and freeze resistant.
Scientists have a devil of a time with pupfish: Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005; So far scientists have been stymied by an inch-long fish.
State urges safety on Red Rock route: Monday, Dec. 19, 2005; The Nevada Transportation Department is encouraging drivers over the holidays to take it easy on the roads, particularly on one stretch of roadway that has proven to be fatal for too many drivers.
Water rule targets pathogen: Friday, Dec. 16, 2005; Despite plans to the contrary, Interior Secretary Gale Norton will not be in Las Vegas today.
States trying to avoid legal water war: Thursday, Dec. 15, 2005; Facing tough questions over how to equitably share a shrinking resource, representatives from Nevada and other Colorado River basin states on Wednesday rallied around the hope that they will be able to avoid legal warfare over water use.
Wash diversion still studied: Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005; State and federal agencies are still gathering information and considering what action they should take -- if any -- in response to a rancher's decision to build a dam and artificial lakes in the environmentally sensitive Meadow Valley Wash.
Yucca work raising eyebrows: Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005; The chairman of the Nevada Board of Regents -- a Las Vegas attorney who was on Gov. Kenny Guinn's short list to replace former Attorney General Brian Sandoval -- may soon assist Lincoln County in efforts related to the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
Water talks on tap: Monday, Dec. 12, 2005; Interior Secretary Gale Norton is scheduled to speak at a meeting of Colorado River water users in Las Vegas next week, capping three days of potentially tough interstate discussions on managing the river's resource.
Rancher faces two probes: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005; A Moapa Valley rancher at the heart of a state and federal probe into his diversion of a river in Lincoln County last week took similar action in Clark County last year, residents and a county official said Tuesday.
Uproar in Meadow Valley: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005; A Moapa Valley rancher went into a Lincoln County stream with heavy equipment last week to take what he says is rightfully his -- water.
Museum acquires internment camp land: Monday, Dec. 5, 2005; Sixty years after federal officials closed it, Utah's dusty desert site of the internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans is almost whole again.
Blue butterfly's status to be reviewed further: Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005; What it will take to save the Mount Charleston blue butterfly from threatened extinction won't likely be known until next year.
Snow is tops on wish list: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005; A series of winter storms sweeping across the northern tier of the United States has brought some hope of precipitation for the Colorado River basin, but so far that hope has yet to produce much in the way of wet stuff.
Colorado River states bracing for cutbacks in water: Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005; Comments on potential drought-induced cuts to allocations of Colorado River water can be mailed before the close of business Wednesday:
Keeper of the green: Monday, Nov. 28, 2005; A UNLV researcher is working to keep the green on the fairways and in the wallets of Las Vegas golf course operators.
Conservation plan includes protections for 78 plant and animal species: Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005; The Clark County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan includes protections for 78 plants and animals.
Pharmacy fiasco led to reform: Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005; Federal indictments announced Tuesday could send a Las Vegas developer and his son to prison for decades, but the issue that brought the charges has already had an impact that goes far beyond the individuals.
Conservation slipping?: Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005; For three years Southern Nevada has been enjoying a pleasant paradox: Even as the population increased by about 80,000 people a year, the total amount of water used has dropped.
Arizona communities oppose wastewater straight to Mead: Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005; The Mohave County, Ariz., board of county supervisors voted Monday to oppose a planned $625 million project to send Clark County's treated sewer water deep to the bottom of Lake Mead.
Failed golf resort to make way for recreation area: Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005; The agency, which manages the surrounding 316,000-acre Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, has been struggling, along with several hundred residents in area to deal with the hordes of visitors from the urban area.
Speaking out on water plan: Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005; * What: Southern Nevada Water Authority board meeting
The high cost of sprawl: Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005; A book being released Monday calls Las Vegas the 15th most sprawling metropolitan area in the country and says residents will pay billions to live in a community in which homes are increasingly farther from jobs and retail businesses.
U.S. Forest Service faces balancing act between recreation and conservation: Friday, Nov. 11, 2005; The delicate, often complicated balance between recreation and conservation is the prism through which the U.S. Forest Service views any project in the Spring Mountains.
A mountain of problems: Friday, Nov. 11, 2005; The Spring Mountains make a rugged backdrop to the neon of Las Vegas, offering a cool jewel for weary urbanites looking for recreation in summer and winter.
Influential water official Underwood dies at age 60: Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005; Underwood, who was 60, was the chief executive and general manager of Southern California's Metropolitan Water District and had played a key role in negotiations over the Colorado River for several years.
Strip clubs scrutinized: Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005; Strip clubs have long been magnets for controversy, and a series of recent issues at Las Vegas clubs have renewed the debate over the strip club industry.
Steering off-roaders toward right path: Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005; Under the 124-page rule, managers of the 175 national forests and grasslands will designate which roads and trails are appropriate for motorized vehicles over the next four years, with the rest of the land being declared off-limits.
Conservationists hope plan to protect blue butterfly takes flight: Monday, Oct. 31, 2005; A California environmental group is asking federal agencies to move immediately to stop habitat destruction affecting a tiny blue butterfly in the Spring Mountains.
It wasn't a gem in U.S. history, but Topaz will never be forgotten: Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005; The Topaz Museum: www.topazmuseum.org.
Desalination may be solution to water woes of LV Valley: Sunday, Oct. 23, 2005; Hardly.
Trail opens world of nature to Southern Nevadans: Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005; When: Saturday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Critics: Sewer project stinks: Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005; What: A public hearing on the proposal to change the treated wastewater discharge point to Lake Mead.
Water plan has rural counties steamed: Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005; The hot-button issue of importing water from rural Nevada to the thirsty Las Vegas Valley is on the agenda of the Clark County Commission and several of its political alter egos this morning.
Butterflies take to the skies: Sunday, Oct. 16, 2005; It's been a good year for painted ladies in Southern Nevada.
Solution on water no nearer: Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005; About all anyone agrees on in Southern Nevada's water debate is this: Las Vegas is about tapped out.
How deep is safe?: Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005; Lake Mead is both the source of the region's drinking water and the receptacle for the end product.
Project under heavy scrutiny: Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005; A development on Mount Charleston, billed as a half-dozen homes near the end of Kyle Canyon Road, is attracting attention from Clark County officials who fear that the project is a cover for nearly 50 individual condos.
Phone service returning to Lee Canyon: Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005; Last year the mountain's residents had to contend with 50 feet of snow in some areas. There were avalanches that killed a teen and knocked out telephone service. After the avalanches in January, the residents living in about 60 homes in the canyon struggled through the rest of the winter, spring and summer with just patchy satellite phones or no phone capability at all.
St. Thomas tour part of river meeting: Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005; In the last five years, however, drought and continued population growth have made the question of water in the West -- and the role of the river as the most important single source of the resource -- critical.
Water Authority thirsts for a shot of support: Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005; The Water Authority is asking the Las Vegas City Council, the Clark County Commission, the Las Vegas Valley Water District and the Clark County Water Reclamation District to pass a resolution in support of its $3 billion plan to pipe in water from across the state.
California agencies to help fund Colorado River study: Friday, Sept. 30, 2005; While a state panel has thus far declined to fund a study of the Colorado River, the panel's counterparts in other states are contributing to the scientific effort.