The Southern Nevada Water Authority offered tours Saturday at its new low-lake-level pumping station under construction at Lake Mead.
Henry Brean
Reporter: Environment
Email: hbrean@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0350
Henry Brean writes about water and the environment for the Review-Journal, where he has worked since 2003. A native of Tucson, Arizona, he earned his journalism degree from the University of Missouri before returning to the desert as a reporter and editor for the Pahrump Valley Times.
Starting June 1, all 117 fee-collecting parks will charge an extra $5 for admission, including Lake Mead, Death Valley, GrandCanyon, Zion and other park sites in the Las Vegas vicinity.
Thousands of frenzied fans filled the plaza outside T-Mobile Arena Wednesday for the first playoff game in Golden Knights history.
Three Lyon County men have been charged in connection with the poaching of a black bear and other animals in 2017.
That’s the beauty of the Vegas Golden Knights’ improbable run to the playoffs in their very first season. Unless you’re a toddler, you can’t claim that you’ve been cheering for VGK your whole life.
About 50 people in this town of about 400 residents turned out to voice their displeasure with the project, which could bring more than 200 wind turbines, each the height of a skyscraper, to the hills 10 miles to the west.
Environmentalists are suing federal regulators over protections for eight California rivers, including one that starts in Nevada.
Goldstrike Canyon is being shut down early this year — on Sunday — because of construction on Interstate 11 that will cut off access to the trailhead.
Expressions of sorrow and pleas for calm filled the April 5, 1968, edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The original mountain howitzer that accompanied Fremont on his 1840s expedition across the Great Basin highlights a new traveling exhibit set to open Saturday April 7 at the Nevada State Museum at the Springs Preserve.
Conservation activists are urging the Bureau of Land Management to address issues with a historic dam that is trapping mud and slowly burying petroglyphs and other cultural resources in the Arrow Canyon Wilderness.
The meetings will open the public comment process on a proposal to build wind turbines along a 22-mile stretch of the Nevada-California border adjacent to three federally protected areas.
Nevada’s most populous county grew by 47,355 residents in 2017. Only Maricopa County, Arizona, home to most of the Phoenix metro area, added more new residents with 73,650.
Anyone caught by “No Breaks” patrols in the park on Saturday and Sunday can expect to receive a citation and lose their banned items. Violators also could be fined up to $5,000.
Despite worsening conditions in the mountains that feed the Colorado River, forecasters still expect the reservoir east of Las Vegas to contain just enough water by the end of the year to avoid a first-ever federal shortage declaration.