Three western U.S. states have announced a new two-year deal to stabilize the Colorado River. California, Nevada and Arizona ...

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Lake Mead’s five-year outlook is slightly better after two wet winters, according to projections released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The five-year projections, released three times a ...

Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the latest federal update, released Wednesday. In the Upper Colorado River Basin, ...

Lake Mead is the country's largest reservoir and a crucial supplier of drinking water to millions in the West, located on the ...

The white bathtub ring around Lake Mead keeps growing. As of late April 2026, the largest reservoir in the United States ...

Forecasters are confident it's a particularly bad water year for the Colorado River, worrying some about a likely return to record low levels in reservoirs that are reminiscent of 2022. Las Vegas is ...

Nevada can expect a healthy water year — with some caveats — thanks to a hardy winter snowpack and generous spring showers. As snow melts through the summer, most key reservoirs in northern Nevada and ...

Authorities are trying to determine the cause of a fire early Sunday that damaged or destroyed about 15 boats at a Lake Mead National Recreation Area marina in Nevada. National Park Service officials ...

Two Nevada men are facing a year in prison and fines of up to $100,000 each for pushing ancient rock formations off a cliff at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Following a two-day trial, a ...