The Interior Department is considering revising rules to address the drought, including possibly reducing water released from dams on Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
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Colton Lochhead covers pot and politics for the Review-Journal, where he started as an intern covering crime and breaking news in 2012. Raised in Las Vegas, the life-long desert rat graduated from Bonanza High School before earning his journalism degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., swung through Nevada on Friday to stump for vulnerable Democrats in hopes of boosting turnout among younger voters as the Silver State wrapped up its first week of early voting.
The Desert Research Institute study showed higher levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in 22 percent of rural wells than is considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Review-Journal has been asking voters what they want their would-be elected officials to talk about as Election Day approaches. Here’s what they said.
Amy Tarkanian, Elliot Malin and Jason Guinasso — all of whom endorsed Democratic incumbent Attorney General Aaron Ford for re-election — are suing the executive director of the Nevada Republican Party for defamation.
The Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee Thursday approved $100 million in funding for water conservation projects across the state.
A proposal to pump groundwater from rural Nevada to Las Vegas is dead, bringing relief to a coalition of odd bedfellows who fought it for more than 30 years. But concerns linger.
Three minor party candidates are also in the contest between U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and former Attorney General Adam Laxalt that could decide control of the Senate for the second half of President Joe Biden’s term.
Gov. Steve Sisolak is fighting a close battle for re-election to a second and final term against Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.
California, the Colorado River’s largest water user, has proposed cutting its use by 9 percent starting next year to fight the ongoing drought.
Clark County will release the job titles and political affiliations of election workers to the Republican National Committee, but not their names.
A new water rate structure that will impose hefty levies on the valley’s biggest residential water users was approved Tuesday by a Southern Nevada municipal water board.
The Las Vegas Valley Water District is expected to adopt a new rate structure so big users pay more when they use more water.
Gov. Steve Sisolak and Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo answered questions as part of a debate sponsored by the Nevada Independent, a non-profit news website.
A new study shows that some water-saving conservation efforts could end up raising temperatures.