Nevada

77 successful drone deliveries were made in the month of November from one 7-Eleven store in Reno, Nevada to customers in the city.

January 4, 2017 - Reno Gazette-Journal

Before this week, President Obama added more acreage to national monuments than any previous president. The final 1.35 million acres, designated this week, are a controversial final flourish.

December 29, 2016 - The Washington Post

While billed as an "anti-fracking initiative," Measure Z in Monterey County, the 4th-largest oil-producing county in California, does far more. It bans new oil drilling and requires the cleaning of wastewater from current drilling operations.

November 6, 2016 - KSBW

An intrepid reporter took a tour of the new RTC Bike Share system in Las Vegas—along the way illustrating the bike-friendly realities of Sin City.

October 30, 2016 - Las Vegas Review-Journal

Reno's blight initiative drew criticism when it removed 68 benches from a park it was renovating.

October 18, 2016 - NBC News - Reno Nevada

Casinos are energy intensive and often located in areas with specific resource constraints and surpluses (i.e., Las Vegas), thus they offer a perfect case study for the future of solar energy.

October 9, 2016 - CityLab

As Las Vegas focuses attention on the city's West Las Vegas neighborhood, residents worry about possible displacement.

September 2, 2016 - Landscape Architecture Magazine

An unofficial, international competition for the Black Rock City master plan applies the imagination inherent to its setting.

September 1, 2016 - Black Rock City Ministry of Urban Planning

The scale of Tesla's vision for the Gigafactory, already under construction in Storey County, Nevada, is unparalleled.

August 27, 2016 - Architizer

In a region infamous for blowing everything up and starting over again, a growing constituency is interested in preserving the residential neighborhoods of yesteryear.

August 22, 2016 - Las Vegas Sun

Let the year-round party commence.

August 12, 2016 - The Architect's Newspaper

A recent study by Trulia concentrates on elasticity (i.e., the rate at which housing stock grows, relative to demand), and arrives at the conclusion that bureaucracy, not regulation, is responsible for rising housing prices.

July 21, 2016 - Trulia

As climate changes in the Rockies and the southwest, Lake Powell is gradually shrinking. The debate over Glen Canyon Dam is on again, and this time environmentalists aren't the only ones against it.

June 23, 2016 - Pacific Standard

The Las Vegas City Council will consider a new Downtown Las Vegas Master Plan this week.

June 13, 2016 - KSNV

A new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration documents the increasing frequency of nuisance floods and "clear-sky flooding."

June 11, 2016 - USA Today

China Railway, which had agreed to put up $100 million for XpressWest to build a 230-mile, 190 mph train from Victorville, Calif. to Las Vegas last September, withdrew from their agreement, primarily due to the inability to use their own trains.

June 10, 2016 - Los Angeles Times

The Downtown Project was envisioned as a five-year plan to develop a hub of start-ups, small businesses, and cultural attractions in Downtown Las Vegas, but things haven't gone according to schedule.

May 24, 2016 - Quartz

Squatters living in the Las Vegas Valley have taken over empty houses in struggling working-class neighborhoods and in upscale planned communities such as Summerlin.

May 16, 2016 - The Seattle Times

PBS kicks off its new science and technology series with a look at just what happened in the desert with MIT's Hyperloop team. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien likens the week's events more to the "glider moment" preceding Kitty Hawk.

May 13, 2016 - PBS NewsHour

As a nascent tech economy tests the waters, Reno's Vice Mayor spearheads an effort to equitably clear out blight and revisit the purpose of the city's downtown.

May 6, 2016 - Next City