A formerly sunken boat rests on a now-dry section of lakebed at drought-stricken Lake Mead on May 10. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) The American West is experiencing its driest period in human ...

A U.S. Bureau of Reclamation forecast predicted Lake Mead's water level would hit its lowest level in recorded history by 2027.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – For Las Vegas, water is life. After years living with a lingering sense of doom, residents have taken some pleasure in seeing Lake Mead fill up a little bit on the strength of a ...

Lake Mead's water levels are 16 feet higher than they were when the reservoir battled critically low levels in the fall of 2022, but compared with the reservoir's highest point, in 1983, it still has ...

Ultramarathoner Sarah Thomas will attempt to swim across Lake Mead on October 6. Thomas, a cancer survivor and Colorado resident, is conducting the swim, in which she would become the first person to ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — It was an icon. The measuring stick of a drought in its 25th year. You couldn’t call it a landmark — it was more of a watermark. A popular photo opp. An artifact of man and nature.

The man-made basin serves water to about 20 million residents in the west. — -- The water levels in Lake Mead, the man-made reservoir that serves about 20 million residents in Nevada, Arizona and ...

Officials in Nevada are warning visitors of a brain-eating amoeba, with a near 100% infection fatality rate, present at Lake Mead. Lake Mead National Recreation Area said Naegleria fowleri – popularly ...

The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is a series of stories examining the dire ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The National Park Service has removed an iconic speedboat that had been sticking out of Lake Mead for years. On Friday, July 25, the boat’s brief moment in the sun ended when park ...