ELKO — The Nevada Division of Water Resources is working to better allocate and manage the amount of water that’s allowed to be withdrawn from northeast Nevada’s Humboldt River Basin, where demand ...

The state Division of Water Resources recently reported about 35 miles of dry channel with no flow on the Humboldt River. (Photo Credit: Colton Brunson, Water Commissioner, Nevada Division of Water ...

ELKO, Nev. (AP) - Most Nevadans love water, probably because it exists in such limited supply. But what many of us refer to as the “Mighty Humboldt” was hotly scorned by early travelers. Our river may ...

Editor’s Note: Nevada 150 is a yearlong series highlighting the people, places and things that make up the history of the state. Nevada’s Humboldt County should not be confused with the ...

A conservation program financed by the federal government is hoping to lure property owners in parts of Nevada to surrender their groundwater rights, but the eligible landowners must decide before the ...

With practiced labor, Tom Moura spills life across the land. Moura opens wooden gates to flood irrigation water across his still-healthy alfalfa crops. He knows he’s fortunate. During this fourth year ...

An angler reeled in a massive, record-breaking carp on a Nevada river, a catch he says took him more than an hour to bring in. Pedro Gonzales caught the 22-pound, 5 ounce fish on Aug. 13 on the ...

ELKO — A couple of dry months have been erased by the past few weeks of precipitation in Northeastern Nevada, leaving the region with high moisture content ahead of the spring and summer dry months.

Thousands of gallons of sulfuric acid en route to a mine spilled into a tributary of Nevada’s Humboldt River on Wednesday after a truck hauling the hazardous chemical crashed over an embankment. The ...