The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of California’s water supply, began the year in good ...

Most of us have heard of the Bermuda Triangle, where planes and ships have mysteriously gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean for decades. Did you know there is a similar place in Nevada? The Nevada ...

Nevada is known for its desert bighorn sheep — the official state animal — and the desert tortoise, its official reptile. But ...

In 1976, Congress designated the 25-million-acre region of desert stretching from the Mexican border north to Death Valley and the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains as the California Desert Conservation ...

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening ...

Long before Southern Nevada built its winding highways, desert tortoises roamed freely without consequence. For these federally protected animals, crossing the street without a dedicated path ...