According to a Las Vegas Sun article, Lake Mead and the surrounding park was originally Boulder Dam National Recreation Area, but became Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Aug. 11, 1947.

The tiny Mojave poppy bee is only known to live in seven sites in and around Nevada’s Lake Mead National Recreation Area. This bee is a poppy specialist, gathering pollen from the imperiled Las Vegas ...

When driving around town, some may have noticed that many of the city’s street lights have a different look to them.

In addition to American staples – including the aforementioned "hamburger sandwich" at Louis' Lunch, which travelers describe as bucket list-worthy – the downtown area boasts numerous fine ...

Thanks to Matt Weberg, Area Supervisor for the Minnesota DNR Fisheries office serving southern Lake ... map pre-dates other early surveys of the North Shore, and many of the Ojibwe names on the map ...

With snowpack levels hovering around 84% of normal, projections for Lake Mead released on Friday show the reservoir dropping ...

Lake Mead is named for the man who oversaw the construction of the Hoover Dam and was a trailblazing pioneer of water ...

Las Vegas has now gone 212 days without rain, and all of Clark County is under either extreme or exceptional drought, but water levels at Lake Mead keep rising. Newsweek reached out to the National ...

Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the ...

Lake Mead, which is in Nevada and Arizona ... The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor map, which shows data valid through February 4, revealed that 100 percent of Clark County is battling extreme ...

Below is a quick rundown of each regional that includes a team from the Boulder, Broomfield and Longmont area. All regionals ... Location: Mead High School. Local teams: Frederick, Longmont ...