Nevada became the first state to sue the federal government over its new 10-year Colorado River plan. At stake: whether Southern Nevada loses nearly three-quarters of its already-thin water allocation while four upstream states face no mandatory cuts at all. The State of Nevada, the Colorado River Commission of Nevada and the Southern Nevada Water… Continue reading Nevada Just Sued the Federal Government Over Water. It Could Lose 71% of Its Colorado River Share.

The National Weather Service issued a new Extreme Heat Warning for Southern Nevada this week, the latest in a summer that has already killed dozens of valley residents. The National Weather Service Las Vegas office issued an Extreme Heat Warning effective the morning of Aug. 24, running through 8 p.m. on Aug. 28, covering Clark… Continue reading Southern Nevada Is Under Another Extreme Heat Warning. This One Runs Through the Weekend.

Nevada gambling regulators say they bought illegal sports bets through Kalshi from inside state lines, weeks after a court ordered the company to block exactly that. Now they want the company to pay $120,000 for every day it kept happening. The Nevada Gaming Control Board asked a Carson City court to impose $120,000 in daily… Continue reading Nevada Wants $120,000 a Day From a Prediction Market App It Says Is Cheating a Court Order

Henderson’s top cop and his deputy chief are both being investigated by state authorities. The city won’t say what they’re accused of — only that it couldn’t trust its own department to investigate itself. The City of Henderson confirmed an active state investigation into Police Chief Reggie Rader and Deputy Chief Matt Murnane, placing Murnane… Continue reading Henderson’s Police Chief and His Second-in-Command Are Both Under State Investigation

Boulder City’s Planning Commission voted 6-1 against allowing data centers in the city. The federal government approved one anyway, on land the city says is still within its jurisdiction — and now Boulder City is taking the fight to federal court. The Boulder City Council voted unanimously to formally appeal the Bureau of Land Management’s… Continue reading Boulder City Is Suing the Federal Government Over a Data Center It Never Got to Vote On

The federal government sold 22 parcels of public land across the Las Vegas Valley this spring. Most of the proceeds are earmarked for statewide projects — not the neighborhoods the land came from. The Bureau of Land Management proposed the sale of 22 parcels of public land across the Las Vegas Valley, with nine parcels… Continue reading The BLM Sold Off 22 Parcels of Las Vegas Land This Year. Most of the Money Didn’t Stay Local.

In 1875, the federal government cut a Nevada Indian reservation from roughly 2 million acres down to 1,000 — one of the steepest land losses in the state’s history. A century and a half later, the same reservation is home to a battery storage system built where a coal plant once stood, and Congress is… Continue reading Congress Shrank a Nevada Reservation to 1,000 Acres in 1875. Its Land Now Helps Power the Grid.

A company won approval to build a solar farm on federal land near Boulder City in 2023. This summer, the same approval got quietly transferred to an 86-acre AI data center instead — without a new environmental review or a single conversation with the city it sits inside. The Bureau of Land Management approved an… Continue reading The BLM Approved a Data Center Near Lake Mead Without Telling Boulder City First

In 1928, Congress gave Nevada the smallest share of the Colorado River of any state that touches it — 300,000 acre-feet a year, a number nobody expected the state to ever need in full. Nearly a century later, that same fixed number is the hard ceiling on growth for one of the fastest-growing states in… Continue reading Nevada Got the Smallest Slice of the Colorado River in 1928. A New Deal Just Locked That Math in Through 2036.

One meeting inside a coffee shop on the Westside ended legal segregation in Las Vegas overnight in 1960. It didn’t end the underlying conditions that created it — and nine years later, that gap boiled over into violence just blocks away. The Moulin Rouge Agreement was reached March 26, 1960, at the coffee shop of… Continue reading The Meeting That Desegregated Las Vegas Took 24 Hours. The City Never Fully Reckoned With What Came After.