This story was originally published by the Nevada Independent and has been republished here by permission. Este artículo también est á disponible en español. A maze of roads wind across the rocky ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The National Park Service has removed an iconic speedboat that had been sticking out of Lake Mead for years. On Friday, July 25, the boat’s brief moment in the sun ended when park ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Bureau of Reclamation says it has secured the final piece of a water conservation puzzle that will protect and preserve the waters of Lake Mead through 2026. At the same ...

Driving down Boulder City Parkway from Las Vegas, a natural wonder comes into view. More than 72,000 acres of water shimmer in the middle of the desert. Past the National Park Service fee station, it ...

Lake Mead supplies vital water to millions in Nevada, Arizona, California, and parts of Mexico. However, declining water levels could jeopardize city water systems, farm irrigation, and hydroelectric ...

Every year, boating enthusiasts across the Southwest hitch watercraft to their vehicles and haul them down to Lake Mead, a Colorado River reservoir straddling Arizona and Nevada. This year, though, ...

National Park Service officials have closed multiple trails inside Arizona’s Lake Mead National Recreation Area after one hiker died and 33 others needed to be rescued over the course of two days amid ...

The Aral Sea used to be the fourth-largest lake in the world, but thanks to poor water management, the lake rapidly shrank over only a handful of decades—from larger than the entire state of West ...

Amid a historic water shortage, Lake Mead's water levels rose this week to the highest point in nearly three years. According to measurements taken at the end of January by the Bureau of Reclamation, ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — It was an icon. The measuring stick of a drought in its 25th year. You couldn’t call it a landmark — it was more of a watermark. A popular photo opp. An artifact of man and nature.