Alan Halaly

6 days ago | azdailysun.com | Alan Halaly

As Nevada and its neighbors argue and a deadline looms, the Trump administration has chosen the official who will oversee contentious Colorado River negotiations if approved by the U.S. Senate. Ted Cooke, who managed the Central Arizona Project from 2015 to 2023, would be the leader of the federal agency that manages water and dams in the West, according to a nomination list on the Senate’s website.

1 week ago | azdailysun.com | Alan Halaly

The water beneath our feet that we use to bathe, drink and water crops is vanishing faster than ever in the Colorado River Basin, according to a new study. From Arizona State University researchers, the study of satellite images has found that an amount of water comparable to Lake Mead has been lost from the ground in the period studied from April 2002 to October 2024. That’s roughly twice as fast as water on the surface.

1 week ago | reviewjournal.com | Alan Halaly

The son of an 82-year-old woman who died in the heat of summer at an affordable housing complex is suing Southern Nevada’s regional housing authority because of what lawyers say was a faulty air conditioner. A wrongful death lawsuit filed in Clark County District Court last week centers around Helen Elliott, a resident of the Lubertha Johnson Estates apartment complex who died, in part, because of environmental heat stress on July 15, 2024.

1 week ago | reviewjournal.com | Alan Halaly

On one of her trips to rural western Nevada, California Botanic Garden master’s student Chloe Novak found herself confronted with the beginnings of an extinction crisis. ATV tracks and wooden stakes riddled the silty floor of Sarcobatus Flat, where she had spent been surveying a population of an extremely rare, state-protected purple flower: the sodaville milkvetch.

1 week ago | hanfordsentinel.com | Alan Halaly

As Nevada and its neighbors argue and a deadline looms, the Trump administration has chosen the official who will oversee contentious Colorado River negotiations if approved by the U.S. Senate. Ted Cooke, who managed the Central Arizona Project from 2015 to 2023, would be the leader of the federal agency that manages water and dams in the West, according to a nomination list on the Senate’s website.