In central Nevada, the shadow of an eagle's wings soars above a strange monument outside an almost abandoned railroad town. Imlay may not be a name that many folks know, but Thunder Mountain is widely recognized. It's a roadside folk art installation that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blizzard warning is in effect for much of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, which could see a storm total of up to 12 feet of snow in the coming days, according to the National ...

Since 2023, the Nevada Legislature has provided the Desert Research Institute with an annual cloud seeding budget of $600,000, reviving state support for a long-running cloud seeding program that promises to boost snowfall in the driest state in the union.

Looking up at elevated points in Nevada's Ruby Mountains - Miss Annabelle/Shutterstock To the uninitiated, it might seem like Nevada and Switzerland have very little in common. After all, one of them — thanks to the presence of Las Vegas — is known ...

ELKO COUNTY, Nevada — A wildfire broke out Saturday afternoon in a mountain range near the Utah-Nevada border. The Goshute Fire was first reported around 4:30 p.m. in the Goshute Wilderness Study Area, according to the Bureau of Land Management.

President Joe Biden has announced plans to protect Nevada's Ruby Mountains by halting oil, gas and geothermal development for the next two decades. As his final weeks in the White House wind down, Biden and his top aides are making a home-stretch sprint on ...

Modern drones map farmland, inspect power lines and help fight wildfires across the Mountain West. Nationwide, the drone industry now employs more than 100,000 people — and demand for trained pilots continues to grow.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis woman who was found with her husband more than a week after the couple went missing in the Nevada mountains is sharing the story of their ordeal through her family. "It was a religious experience on that mountain in so ...