As the 2026 election season continues, a coalition of Nevada grassroots organizations holds local trivia night to encourage ...

Thousands of cyclists labored to climb in the High Sierra’s thin air. Lungs and thighs burned as the grade steepened near the ...

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Aerial views of the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center from August 2025. Photo courtesy of Evan Petty. This story is part of an ongoing series, Who Controls the West, which examines the people, companies ...

The Oppidan Data Center will be the second in the city of Reno. Photo Richard Bednarski / Sierra Nevada Ally Last month, the Reno City Council approved the Oppidan Data Center to become the city’s ...

Serrell Smokey is chairman of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, which recently purchased significant portions of ancestral land in the Sierra region. This land return marks one of the largest ...

Those of us who live in the western Great Basin Desert, up in the foothills on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, are all too familiar with a wind that is known locally as the Washoe Zephyr.

Walker Lake now has 57.5% of the water needed to restore the lake’s fishery. Photo credit EcoFlight With an annual average precipitation of just 10.3 inches, Nevada is the driest state in the nation.

The high desert of Western Nevada is a land of starkly beautiful multi-colored peaks, endless waves of sagebrush, and stands of drought resistant pinyon pines. It is a hardy land of quiet allure, but ...

Emerging technologies will be at the forefront of this summer’s launch of the ten-year, multi-agency effort to address aquatic invasive species (AIS) as laid out in The Lake Tahoe Region Invasive ...

In the years before Nevada became a state in 1864, hundreds of hopefuls made their way out West, hoping to strike it rich as part of the California Gold Rush. Along the way, these white settlers often ...