Nestled in the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Genoa is a charming slice of Americana that feels like it’s been ...

Areas charred by last month's wildfires in Southern California now face a new threat from a powerful, but fast-moving Pacific ...

The National Weather Service said another winter storm late Wednesday through Friday will bring rain and gusty northerly winds to the Sacramento Valley and snow to the Sierra Nevada. While rainfall ...

Yes, it is Insta-famous, and yes, you may have to fight your way through camera-clad visitors, but the Alabama Hills Movie ...

One of the world’s most iconic long-distance hiking trails for hiking enthusiasts is the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). It ...

The Reno-Sparks Heat Mapping Project has released the results of its community temperature mapping campaign for 2024 ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HRUBY: Other experiments are conducted underground at the former Nevada test site ... handful of other reporters driving across this beautiful, empty desert landscape ...

A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat, Nevada. NPR's science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel was among them. Inside a top-secret US nuclear ...

the project’s construction destroyed irreplaceable pristine desert habitat along with numerous rare plant species," Dowell said. “While the Sierra Club strongly supports innovative clean ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands ... miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed at the time as ...

As part of a planned 2,400-acre solar project southwest of Pahrump, developer Candela Renewables will temporarily relocate 114 adult desert tortoises — a species, listed as threatened under the ...