Unlike other states of the Colorado River Basin, Nevada has one main river user: Las Vegas. The world famous city in the desert is responsible for more than 90 percent of the state’s diversions ...

A surreal view of Lake Mead's glittering blue water, which can be seen from the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail and River Mountains Loop Trail. The reservoir was created in the 1930s by damming the ...

The Colorado River might be Nevada’s low point, but it’s a high point for critters. The river lures big horn sheep, bobcats, foxes, burros, raccoons and beavers.

The river, mining and milling. Before Nevada obtained statehood in 1864, Dayton was a booming milling, woodcutter’s town and a commercial center for the upper Comstock towns of Silver City, Gold ...

U.S. says drought-stricken Arizona and Nevada will get less water from Colorado River Updated August 16, 2022 4:30 PM ET Originally published August 16, 2022 2:29 AM ET By ...

Reno is a desert town with a river heart. The Sierra Nevada snow-fed Truckee River, which is the only outlet from nearby alpine Lake Tahoe, passes through the city on its 121-mile-long slide out ...

The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people across seven states in the American West as well as Mexico and helps feed an agricultural industry valued at $15 billion a year.

Accordingly, the compact gave Nevada the smallest cut of the Colorado River: 1.8 percent, or just 300,000 acre-feet (an acre foot is the amount of water needed to fill an acre to a depth of one foot).

Only a few miles from the Las Vegas Strip, in the Mojave Desert, is an unlikely scene: A county park with walking trails and thick vegetation that circles a vibrant rush of flowing water. Known as ...