The race is on in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Maine and elsewhere to get President Barack Obama to preserve millions of acres as national monuments before he leaves office.
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An endangered fish found only in northern Clark County saw its population drop by 25 percent over the past year, but biologists insist things are still looking up for the Moapa dace.
A U.S. Forest Service firefighter died around 4 p.m. Saturday after he was hit by a tree while working to suppress the Strawberry Fire at Great Basin National Park near Baker.
A fire that has burned nearly 7,700 acres in White Pine County is now 95 percent contained, the Bureau Land Management said in a statement Sunday.
A camp inmate walked away from a Carson City worksite Sunday morning, the Nevada Department of Corrections said in a statement.
Many customers have read about Ernie’s gritty survival, the years from 1942 to 1945, when he baked for his life while being held captive by German SS officers.
Don’t be surprised to see a slew of television ads touting a measure to legalize recreational marijuana use during the weeks leading up to the general election in November.
The 4,600-acre fire at the national park located 300 miles northeast of Las Vegas, is 52 percent contained, according to a release from the Great Basin Incident Management Team 7.
More than 300 off-road racers have won permission to drive across Nevada’s newest national monument next week, but they won’t be allowed to race or go off-road.
While the presidential candidate town hall headlined the Asian American Journalists Association convention in Las Vegas on Friday, the four-day event aims to be a boon for journalists young and old.
A growing team of firefighters is making progress against a wildfire that has burned a campground and closed portions of Great Basin National Park.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Friday issued eight published opinions as Justice Nancy Saitta leaves the bench, but the highly anticipated rulings on two education savings account cases were not among them.
A road in Utah’s Zion National Park that was closed after a boulder the size of a house tumbled onto the highway has been reopened.
The Henderson and North Las Vegas fire departments soon will benefit from nearly $4 million in Department of Homeland Security grant funding.
Nevada domestic violence advocates reaffirmed their support for Question 1, a ballot initiative proposing to expand firearm background checks to private-party sales and transfers.