After falling more than 27 feet since the start of the year, Lake Mead got a bit of a bump thanks in part to the August monsoon season.
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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.
The Basic Water Company can no longer supply water to its customers after Lake Mead’s surface fell below the company’s intake pipeline.
An upgrade to water meters will allow the Las Vegas Valley Water District, and ultimately water users, to track their consumption in real time.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is asking voters to help set the agenda for the 2022 election campaign by telling us what you want the candidates to talk about.
Gov. Steve Sisolak tapped three experts to help advise him on the ongoing drought and responses to it.
A memorandum of understanding between California, Nevada and Colorado outlines water-saving steps agencies in those states will take to deal with the ongoing drought.
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager John Entsminger are demanding more details about how the federal government will deal with the western drought.
Announcements that Steve Sisolak and Joe Lombardo have committed to debate don’t necessarily mean the two gubernatorial candidates are any closer to doing so.
A left-leaning political action committee on Friday filed a complaint accusing the Republican U.S. Senate nominee of violating federal laws.
Within a day of the Las Vegas mass shooting in 2017, leaked photos of the gunman’s body had spread to several media outlets. No Metro officer was ever disciplined.
Lake Mead will head into 2023 under a federal water shortage for the second straight year as the worsening drought continues to ravage the West.
The head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority cited “unreasonable expectations” by water managers in the other states in the face of unprecedented drought.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act with no Republican support, and the House is scheduled to vote on it Friday.
Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz joined Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt at an event to promote the idea of school choice, which has stumbled in Nevada in recent years.
A report says that infrastructure improvements are badly needed at Glen Canyon Dam to keep Colorado River water flowing downstream.