Just weeks after a developer asked state energy regulators to let it build its own temporary natural gas plant to power Northern Nevada data centers, another developer is asking regulators to approve an even larger, permanent gas plant to power additional data centers.

Together, Great Basin and Lake Mead face between $431 million and $501 million in deferred maintenance projects. Zooming out to include all the state's federally managed areas, including Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and part of Death Valley National Park, Nevada's federal lands have almost $1 billion in deferred maintenance repairs.

Dive team operations at Southern Nevada's Lake Mead National Recreation Area, consistently ranked as one of America's most deadly federal recreation sites, have quietly been suspended because of staffing shortages and unmet equipment and training needs. 

Mining developers say Nevada will have three operating lithium mines by 2030, despite cost increases from federal tariffs, the conflict in Iran and other federal initiatives that are challenging the industry.

City staff will work in the coming months to craft a proposal that encompasses suggestions from the public, outside groups council members and regional officials who have been studying the issue for more than a year.

As gray wolf populations expand in California and the broader region, some researchers say Nevada may be entering the earliest stages of the recovery story.

After seeking to collect a half billion dollars from customers to bolster its wildfire insurance, NV Energy has secured an additional $250 million in coverage. But Nevada's largest electric utility is still moving forward with its request to have ratepayers help foot the bill for a $500 million self-funded policy the utility can tap in the event its infrastructure causes a catastrophic blaze.

Six months after the state's highest water regulator had raised the nuclear option and proposed cutting water for Northern Nevada's Humboldt River Basin, the state now says it has no plans to issue a curtailment order. 

Seven states that have been negotiating for a longer-term solution to the dwindling water supply have constantly hit snags in the talks.

Consolidation. It's a convoluted issue that is seemingly everywhere. In this month's Indy Environment, I put a local push for firefighting consolidation into perspective.

In what experts say is a first for Nevada, a data center developer is asking permission from state energy regulators to operate a new temporary natural gas power plant because NV Energy doesn't have the capacity to immediately serve it — potentially skirting parts of the state's regulatory process.

Would firefighting in Washoe County be cheaper and more effective if its three different fire departments were combined? It reemerged in last year's legislative session when legislation passed requiring a study examining the possible merging of Sparks Fire Department, Reno Fire Department and Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District into one entity.

A decades-long drought has Lake Powell at just 23 percent capacity and approaching the point where water won't be able to flow into its turbines without air causing damage.

The complaints largely opposed a draft order to reduce groundwater pumping in certain areas and accused then-State Engineer Adam Sullivan of "coercion."

Nearly a decade after the state and federal government agreed to keep Nevada's largest abandoned mine off a federal list of highly polluted sites, the mine is almost cleaned up. But now, conversations about reopening the 3,400-acre Anaconda Copper Mine to production are troubling groups that have monitored the defunct property for years.

After a warm winter with poor skiing conditions gave way to early springtime record heat, snow is vanishing from all but the highest elevations in the West. It's a clear sign that water shortages could worsen.

This year in Nevada, it feels like we skipped false spring and actual spring and went right from winter to summer, with high temperatures blowing past records to bits.

After failing in 2024 to convince the Elko Planning Commission to approve a public ski area, a California businessman and Elko County ranch owner has been OK'd to build a private facility on his sprawling ranch that extends into the Ruby Mountains.

When Ryan Shane saw an ad for a forester with the Nevada Division of Forestry, it felt as if the job was made for him. That was nearly 20 years ago; now, he will lead the division as state forester and fire warden.

The 2009 endangerment finding determined greenhouse gases threaten public health and underpinned climate regulations of cars, power plants and more.