Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe leaders said a new project, reopening 65 miles of the Truckee River, could aid recovery of the cui-ui and Lahontan cutthroat trout.

The people dealing with the fallout of the nuclear testing in Nevada got a reminder — they only had a year left to apply for compensation for health ailments they believe could be linked to the bombs.

Judge: Water regulators did not overstep in rejecting the company’s paperwork after discovering a conflict in the chain of title for water rights it bought in 2020.

While the mud-related Burning Man crisis is over and attendees are finally off the playa, the environmental impacts of 70,000 people on the unique and delicate ecosystem remain to be seen.

Sen. Ira Hansen (R-Sparks) and Oregon-based animal rights activist Scott Beckstead took their debate over wild horses and their impacts on the Silver State off the internet and onto a debate stage Thursday in Elko County.

The decision to cut down the trees has been criticized on X, formerly known as Twitter, and a petition circulating online is calling on MGM Resorts to pledge to plant new trees elsewhere in the Las Vegas Valley.

In rural Nevada, a team of Desert Research Institute scientists is testing the limits of ground penetrating radar in a new way: using it to locate lost burial sites at a nearly forgotten cemetery.

As visitation to Nevada’s parks swells, more than a quarter of Nevada State Parks’ jobs are sitting vacant, pushing remaining staffers to fill in as needed and forcing at least one popular park to implement partial closures.

People from as far away as France traveled to Fallon — a town of a little more than 9,300 people east of Reno — this past weekend to attend the Fallon Cantaloupe Festival and celebrate the Heart of Gold Cantaloupe, a particular breed of melon said to have its beginnings in Churchill County.

Nevada State Parks is rolling out a reservation system for overnight visitors, as well as some day-use visitors, starting Sept. 1. 

Nevada's Antelope North Complex, one of the largest BLM wild horse gathers in the nation this year, was the scene of one of the West’s greatest debates — if and how wild horses should be managed.

Trails are closed, a small school is shuttered indefinitely and residents don't know when they'll have access to clean tap water after remnants of Hurricane Hilary battered the mountain town.

As Tahoe’s popularity grows, so does the stress on the basin’s environment. Traditional methods for rounding up litter in the water and on the lakeshores are no longer sufficient. Now, robots are helping.

Weather and climate experts agree the storm was an anomaly unlike anything seen in Nevada in decades and that, with a warming climate, storms like Hilary could be more common.

The nearly 8 inches of rain shut down Mount Charleston's power and water systems and damaged roads, stranding residents and visitors

A new poll from a conservation advocacy group found that 77 percent of Nevadans polled would support the designation of a new national monument at Bahsahwahbee, or Swamp Cedars, among other conservation findings in the state.

According to a United States Bureau of Reclamation report released Tuesday, Nevada will see only a 7 percent reduction in its water allocation in 2024 — compared to the 8 percent, about 25,000 acre-feet, it saw this year — due to ongoing drought conditions.

No other state has undertaken similar efforts offsetting development for conservation in the way that Nevada has. Nevada’s lands bills hold a unique place among federal conservation strategies and have garnered bipartisan support, bypassing traditional political wisdom of Republicans supporting privatization while Democrats favor environmental protections.

In Nevada, SNPLMA has invested billions of dollars in the state and powered growth throughout the region, while critics have charged that it has enabled suburbanization and sprawl, straining already-precarious water resources. 

Wildfires have burned more than 8.8 million acres over the past 20 years in Nevada. A series of public-private partnerships and projects funded by federal and state appropriations could prevent more from sparking around Northern Nevada.