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Editorial: Drought and flood, California’s double whammy

Just as federal officials were laying out alternative scenarios last week for steep water supply cuts from the Colorado River due to the drying Southwest, California officials were warning that this year’s historic Sierra snowpack could flood much of the state later this year.

Los Angeles Times

The rules governing the Colorado River were made for a ‘previous world’ and the West is now confronting a 21st century nightmare as it runs dry

Fixing the Southwest’s water supply problem will be painful, and the big question might be ‘how to distribute that pain.’

Fortune

Snowmelt leads to heavy flooding from Southwest to Rockies

A rapid spring snowmelt after an unusually wet winter is unleashing flooding from the Southwest to the Rockies, causing residents there and in the Upper Midwest to stock up on sandbags amid surging creeks and rivers

The Independent UK

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US presents proposals for major water cuts on Colorado River

LOS ANGELES — The federal government on Tuesday laid out two options for preventing the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs from falling to critically low levels, saying it could either impose cuts across the Southwest by following the water-rights priority system or by using an across-the-board percentage.

Los Angeles Times

Plume Of Pacific Moisture To Spread Rain, Snow To Northwest

Most of the Southwest will continue to experience dry weather due to a northward bulge in the jet stream.

Zenger

Commentary: Nevada can’t shed its ugly past while continuing to exploit Native people and lands

Today, tourists from all over the world flock to Nevada to experience selective amnesia. “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” the slogan goes. But Las Vegas’ culture of forgetting is more than drunken hijinks. The city’s existence depends on forgetting the colonial violence that made the Southwest. Since becoming…

Los Angeles Times

Here’s everything you need to plan a road trip through the beautiful Southwest

SANTA ANA, Calif. — When you’re from California, it’s easy to think that some of the world’s most beautiful and wild, rugged places are close to home. But the reality is that while the Golden State has plenty of incredible scenery to offer, both back in those "Wild West" days…

The Orange County Register

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Indigenous people of the American West used 'sacred' horses a half-century earlier than previously thought

Indigenous oral histories and archaeological evidence are rewriting the story of how horses came to the American West.

LiveScience

Officials warn of wildfire risk as Southwest US dries out

Climate experts say the wildfire season might be delayed in some parts of the Southwestern U.S. because of a deluge of winter moisture

The Independent UK

A new flu is spilling over from cows to people in the U.S. How worried should we be?

Pigs and goats likely catch it too. It's been found in humans' noses in the Southwest — and in the air at airports and at chicken farms in Malaysia.

WEKU

18 armed robberies by same people reported on North, West, Southwest sides over last five days

The robberies occurred in the Deering, Ogden, Harrison and Town Hall police districts, with nine robberies reported in Brighton Park over an hour on Saturday.

Chicago Sun-Times

After Hurricane Ian, Fort Myers Beach struggles to become 'a functional paradise'

Nearly every building on the barrier island in Southwest Florida was damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Ian's 15-foot storm surge. It's left the town with almost a clean slate for redevelopment.

WEKU

Vallas, Johnson commit to resurrecting Department of Environment at forum on Southwest Side

At a forum in Pilsen, both mayoral candidates vowed to revive the shuttered agency to improve air, water quality and enforce ordinances to bring polluters into compliance.

Chicago Sun-Times

Annular solar eclipse 2023: Everything you need to know about North America's 'ring of fire' eclipse

The annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14, 2023, will be visible from eight states in the U.S. Southwest. Find out how and where to see the 'ring of fire' eclipse in our ultimate guide.

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Adam Minter: Farmers can’t keep hogging the water in parched Southwest

The lush lawns and green golf courses of Southern California are an emblem of the desert Southwest’s dependence on the Colorado River. But they’re just a small part of the demands placed on this crucial water resource in times of both drought and plenty. The far bigger part, as much…

Zenger

Intense Pacific Storm To Hammer Southern, Central California

California has been hit by the most recent significant storm in a string from the Pacific Ocean as of Monday night.

Tribune News Service

Urban areas are adding people and gobbling up land in most states

The percentage of residents living in areas the U.S. Census Bureau calls “urban” grew in 36 states between 2010 and 2020, led by booming cities and suburbs in the South, Southwest, Midwest and California, according to a new Stateline analysis.

Zenger

Disruptive Winter Storm To Bring Significant Ice, Heavy Snow To Northeast

A massive snow storm that slowed down traffic from the Southwest to the Midwest for more than 22 million people is far from over

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As Colorado River shrinks, water evaporation becomes critical to California’s future supplies

LOS ANGELES — Much of the Colorado River’s water is diverted from reservoirs and transported in canals to the farmlands and cities of the desert Southwest. But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — vanishing into thin air.

Los Angeles Times

How Las Vegas declared war on thirsty grass and set an example for the desert Southwest

LAS VEGAS — Fountains still shimmer opulently at casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, but lush carpets of grass are gradually disappearing along the streets of Sin City.

Los Angeles Times

The Colorado River is overused and shrinking. Inside the crisis transforming the Southwest

BERTHOUD PASS, Colo. — The Colorado River begins as melting snow, trickling from forested peaks and coursing in streams that gather in the meadows and valleys of the Rocky Mountains.

Tribune News Service

Adam Minter: Arizona can't keep growing without finding more water

The 23-year drought that’s parching the Southwest is forcing Arizona to make a bitter choice. Unless developers can find new sources of water, the state’s largest master-planned housing development is going to remain a desert.

The Independent UK

Deadly ‘Valley Fever’ fungal infection outbreak sparks fears of US endemic

‘It just goes to show you how serious of a disease it is if doctors seeing it think the first thing I have is cancer,’ 24-year-old says

Fortune

Valley fever could be spreading across the U.S. Here are the symptoms and what you need to know

Fungal infection is most commonly found in the Southwestern United States.

Zenger

California Set To Get Needed Break From Storms. How Long Will It Last?

A much-needed break from the relentless train of storms from the Pacific is set to unfold across California

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