During his eight years on the job, Jason King banned new residential wells in Pahrump, blocked water for the Coyote Springs master-planned community and twice ruled on controversial plans to pipe groundwater to Las Vegas.
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.
The fight over future water development in Pahrump is in the hands of the Nevada Supreme Court after a district judge struck down a move by state regulators to restrict residential groundwater wells in the town 60 miles west of Las Vegas.
Nevada’s third tallest peak is a step closer to shedding its Confederate name in favor of something far older and less controversial.
Las Vegas, America’s driest desert city, is home to a man-made urban forest worthy of at least some national attention.
The partial government shutdown could close federal parks and offices and complicate the holiday plans of Las Vegas Valley residents, tourists and public employees. Then again it may not.
The Bureau of Land Management has announced limited hours for the gated portions of Red Rock Canyon and Sloan Canyon national conservation areas on Dec. 25.
Residents of the shoreline community of Meadview staged a “minor revolt” at a public meeting on the park service’s new low-water plan for the lake after the document failed to mention the park’s intention to build a new ramp at South Cove.
For more than a year, federal officials have been pushing for the completion of drought contingency plans by the seven states that share the Colorado River.
Melvin Dummar has died. He won fame for supposedly rescuing Howard Hughes from the Central Nevada desert in December 1967, but he never saw a dime of the billionaire’s fortune, despite a disputed will that named him as a beneficiary.
The Bureau of Land Management will unveil its plans for a permanent visitor center at Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area during a public forum in Henderson on Wednesday.
Less than an hour after the first strike team entered Stephen Paddock’s suite at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas police officers far from the scene were already sharing cellphone photos of the dead gunman.
The project by a Sweden-based energy company would have built more than 200 turbines, each the height of a skyscraper, along a 22-mile stretch of desert west of Searchlight.
The National Park Service expects to spend about $25 million to move marinas and extend boat launch ramps if Lake Mead continues to shrink in the coming years, according to a new low-water plan released Thursday.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority’s low-lake-level pumping station, a $650 million safety net for a community that draws 90 percent of its drinking water from Lake Mead, will be flooded sometime next week.
While some people lined up to buy stuff, about 75 volunteers spent Black Friday at the opposite end of the supply chain, picking up litter from public land at the eastern edge of the Las Vegas Valley.