“We move every day — we’re backpacking,” said Jackson Fitzsimmons, a Sierra National Forest wilderness ranger who lost his ...

Evacuating the Tahoe basin in summer could take 14 hours, and 99% of properties are at risk — yet new resorts are being built ...

Who needs a conventional vacation when you can have adventure with a side of quirky? Like a-forest-of-cars-turned-into-art kind of curious? For that, you have to visit Nevada. The Silver State ...

From her home in Baker, Nevada, Elizabeth Woosley can see Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way, with her naked eye. But she's one of the lucky ones as America's dark skies are rapidly ...

The slow and bumpy 5-mile road to Fallen Leaf Lake, southwest of South Lake Tahoe, affords only one way in and one way out — ...

Federal job cuts have upended spotted owl surveys in Northern and Southern California. It’s unclear whether wildfire mitigation strategies such as forest thinning can happen if the surveys are ...

Riley Rackliffe stared at the ceiling of his home and weighed the pros and cons of the federal government’s severance package offer. The government offered Rackliffe health insurance for nearly ...

When two buddies set out on their first elk hunt, they get separated from their guide and wander the wilderness for nearly a ...

From her home in Baker, Nevada, Elizabeth Woosley can see Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way, with her naked eye. But she's one of the lucky ones as America's dark skies are rapidly ...

Composer Marko Bajzer wrote “The Sacrifice of Prometheus,” a classical-music epic, when he was a Great Basin National Park artist-in-residence. The piece, a musical exploration of the park’s ...

Authors of a fire modeling study focused on one of the few remaining old-growth forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin are pointing ...