Friends of Red Rock Canyon recently purchased and installed adaptive equipment-accessible gates at three trailheads so that those with disabilities can use specially designed trail equipment to explore some of the canyon’s more remote areas.

A bill introduced by Sen. Melanie Scheible (D-Las Vegas) would prohibit the sale of single-use plastic water bottles on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.

Five Great Basin National Park employees - about 20 percent of the park's staff - have been rehired after being laid off in February. But staffing uncertainty remains.

The Tahoe Basin's trees were stripped during the development of Nevada's silver mines, and a stand of old-growth trees at Emerald Point are among the largest remaining ponderosa pines in the Tahoe Basin. But the trees are at 'high risk' if a fire were to burn through, according to a new study.