In this interview, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Hiltzik discusses how his love for and curiosity about California ...

Bold and ambitious solutions to the American West’s water woes seem to be even more scarce than the water itself.

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

Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...

Federal agencies across Washington are finding ways to keep funding frozen even after judges last month temporarily blocked ...

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Construction and construction materials company Granite Construction (NYSE:GVA) beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 ...

Gambling Law Boulder City, Nevada is just 26 miles from Las Vegas, but the two couldn’t be more different. Today, this town ...

Reno is grappling with lower than projected revenue from its major source of revenue, the C-tax, Reno city manager Jackie ...

What he was OK to talk about was his 40-year career at Morrison Knudsen, a homegrown Boise civil engineering and construction ...

LOCAR is a proposed reservoir to hold 65.17 billion gallons of Lake Okeechobee water, some of which gets discharged to the St ...