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

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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 ...

As more people move into the Truckee River watershed, demand for water is increasing while more and more nonpoint source (NPS) pollution is making its way to the river. Nearly half a million people ...

In Part 2 of this series, we explored the use of solitary confinement in Nevada and the United States, tracing its reach and comparing its toll to that of other Western nations. The continued use of ...

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 ...

A welcome snowstorm during the April 11-12 weekend dropped up to 3.5 feet of snow on the High Sierra, leading some ski resorts to reevaluate and extend their planned seasons following a dry winter.

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.

In Reno and Sparks, residents are set to elect a new mayor and officials to serve on the City Council, and Washoe County residents have choices for county commission. Mayors, city council members, and ...

In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a ...

Lost Arrow Spire’s unique attraction is the maneuver climbers use to depart from the pointy granite peak: the celebrated “Tyrolean traverse.” To return to relatively flat earth, climbers anchor ropes ...