Las Vegas started as a cowboy town. When the Hoover Dam was built, it became a gambling destination — not long after, the ...

The Marlette Flume was hardly Nevada’s only 19th-century engineering wonder: the Silver State’s rise was built on ambitious ...

While most of Nevada’s in-tact ghost towns are concentrated in the central and northern portions of the state, the remnants ...

Several U.S. jurisdictions have passed targeted bans on single-use plastic water bottles: South Lake Tahoe, California: As of April 2024, businesses are prohibited from selling single-use plastic ...

The stone tower stands in silent testimony to both human ingenuity and hubris, its empty windows framing the landscape like ...

Snow-covered area in March across the western United States was 8 percent below average, ranking seventeenth in the 25-year satellite record. Snow cover duration was just above the twenty-fifth ...

Millions of people across the central U.S. on Tuesday braced for a dangerous bout ... Meanwhile, in the West, several inches ...

Downtown Ely centers around Aultman Street, where the six-story Hotel Nevada opened in 1929 as the tallest building in Nevada ...

In the northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade peaks, it stands at 108% of the historical April 1 average, but in the central and southern Sierra, it’s just 83% and 81%. The data reflects a sharp ...

The wildfire — which some agencies called the Laws Fire — was reported Sunday afternoon near the highway bridge over the ...