Las Vegas has now gone 212 days without rain, and all of Clark County is under either extreme or exceptional drought, but water levels at Lake Mead keep rising. Newsweek reached out to the National ...

Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of year.

The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National ...

Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the ...

America is filled with many wonders. From the exquisite Grand Canyon to the never-ending stretches of crystal clear beaches.

ADOT received a $566K federal grant to develop a GIS-based tool for mapping wildlife-vehicle collision hotspots to improve ...

Nevada adopted an official state tartan to honor Scottish heritage, and each color has significance for the state.

Samudrapom Dam is a freelance scientific and business writer based in Kolkata, India. He has been writing articles related to business and scientific topics for more than one and a half years. He has ...

WIKIEUP, AZ (AZFamily) — Constructions are starting a project to widen 4 miles of the U.S. 93 northwest of Phoenix, part of the freeway some consider the most dangerous highway in the U.S. The ...

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Reclamation finally drops more details about how it might handle Colorado River water shortages after 2026, but few people think they're real.