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Gabriella Duran, far right, and local ...

Strong, swirling winds complicate New Mexico wildfire fight

May 8, 2022 at 8:53 p.m.

Strong, fast winds complicated work for firefighters in northeast New Mexico on Sunday as they battled two major blazes, though the rural area's major population center appeared to finally be...

Russian man pleads guilty in Nevada to plot to extort Tesla

March 19, 2021 at 4:59 p.m.

A Russian man has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to offering a Tesla employee $1 million to cripple the electric car company’s massive electric battery plant in Nevada with ransomware...

Sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court denies Nevada church鈥檚 appeal of coronavirus rule

July 25, 2020 at 1:39 p.m.

A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court denied a rural Nevada church’s request late Friday to strike down as unconstitutional a 50-person cap on worship services as part of the state’s...

Dems in Congress demand update on Interior’s wild horse plans

October 27, 2019 at 12:07 p.m.

Congressional Democrats are demanding the Interior Department produce an overdue report on plans to manage wild horses roaming federal lands in the West after the head of its public lands...

New pen at California-Nevada border may allow sale of horses for slaughter

January 15, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

The U.S. Forest Service has built a new corral for wild horses in Northern California, which could allow it to bypass federal restrictions and sell the animals for slaughter.

In this undated photo, Jeff Davis Peak, left, and Wheeler Peak reflect in the waters of Stella Lake at Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. With federal approval, the Confederate president’s name could soon be removed and the summit renamed Doso Doyabi, a Shoshone phrase meaning White Mountain. (Henry Brean/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Nevada panel backs new tribal name for mountain named after Confederate president

January 9, 2019 at 9:55 p.m.

A state board wants to change the name of a mountain peak in eastern Nevada's Great Basin National Park to more appropriately recognize a geological area important to a native...

Feds propose offering $1,000 to people who adopt wild horses

April 27, 2018 at 5:29 p.m.

U.S. land managers are proposing offering $1,000 to anyone willing to adopt wild horses gathered from public lands to alleviate a backlog of mustangs in government corals and shrink what...

President Donald Trump speaks during a ...

Trump instructs military to begin planning for withdrawal from Syria

April 4, 2018 at 9:29 a.m.

President Donald Trump has instructed military leaders to prepare to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria but has not set a date for them to do so, according to a senior...

Nevada industrial park developer says horses should stay

March 12, 2018 at 9:04 p.m.

The head of the largest industrial park in the world emphasized economic over emotional arguments Monday in urging Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval to reverse plans to transfer state ownership of...

U.S. sage grouse policy heading back to square one

November 11, 2017 at 1:06 p.m.

Federal scientists and land managers who've been crafting strategies to protect a ground-dwelling bird's habitat across the American West for nearly two decades are going back to the drawing board...

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