In 2004, a two-week standoff at Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis in Buckeye comes to an end when inmates Ricky Wassenaar and Steven Coy, who held a corrections officer hostage, surrendered. In 2009, ...

The reservoir, fed by the Colorado River, is Southern Nevada’s main water supply. It also provides water to Arizona and ...

Day 2 at Lake Mead was spent entirely on a boat, covering miles of newly exposed shoreline. As the waterline dropped, sunken boats appeared again and again. Some were intact, others reduced to remains ...

Four days of negotiations in a Salt Lake City conference room earlier this month did not appear to have sparked a breakthrough.

As Lake Powell and Lake Mead near critical elevations, federal planners face narrowing operational options that could reshape ...

In the late 1940s, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress crashed into Lake Mead during a classified postwar operation known as “Sun Tracker.” The mission was part of early Cold War research ...

The Interior Department has released a new draft plan with five possible approaches for managing drought on the Colorado River. The seven states that rely on the river remain at an impasse over how to ...

Official data reveals how water levels at Lake Mead—a critical reservoir for several states in the western U.S.—evolved over the course of 2025. Lake Mead, located in the Colorado River Basin, is the ...

National Park Service (NPS) rangers at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area have signaled they want to end the decades-long Christmas tradition of Americans decorating the area's many evergreen ...

LAS VEGAS—The Colorado River Basin is, quite literally, 50 feet away from collapse, and an agreement to save it is nowhere in sight. Water titans clashed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas this week, ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The new West Las Vegas Library will officially open its doors next Tuesday with a special ceremony as a major milestone for the Historic Westside. The new facility, located on North ...

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