To understand why the Humboldt has been so important to Nevada, start with where it runs. The river starts north of Wells and flows west 330 miles to Lovelock.

The river stretches some 300 miles, roughly, from above Wells in northeastern Nevada to the Humboldt Sink, southwest of Lovelock. Pioneering white explorers, including Peter Skene Ogden and John C.

ELKO — The Nevada Division of Water Resources is working to better allocate and manage the amount of water that’s allowed to be withdrawn from northeast Nevada’s Humboldt River Basin, where ...

Pedro Gonzales caught the 22-pound, 5 ounce fish on Aug. 13 on the Humboldt River in Eureka County, the Nevada Department of Wildlife said in a Aug. 16 Facebook post.

In Nevada, BLM will spend $6 million on the Montana Mountains in northwest Nevada, and $6 million on the Humboldt O’Neil Basin landscape. That money is part of a total $161 million spread across ...

The Humboldt runs roughly east to west through northern Nevada. At about 300 miles, it is the longest river in the Great Basin of North America and formed the historical route for western migration.