The American Southwest is a geographic region made up of unique natural wonders, with canyon after canyon, and cacti after ...

McGinness, 77, represented rural districts in the Nevada Legislature from 1989 to 2012, and served as Senate minority leader ...

After 214 days without measurable rain, Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International officially measured 0.01 inches of rainfall on ...

Desert Oasis upset the two-time defending 5A state flag football champions Thursday and will play Palo Verde for this year’s ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month ...

Embracing Nature's Majesty Yosemite National Park, located in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, is famed for its granite ...

Las Vegas experienced a record-breaking morning low of 69°F at Angel Peak, with gusty winds expected to continue throughout the day, before dropping to the mid-60s and 30s by the weekend.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HRUBY: Other experiments are conducted underground at the former Nevada test site ... handful of other reporters driving across this beautiful, empty desert landscape ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HRUBY: Other experiments are conducted underground at the former Nevada test site ... across this beautiful, empty desert landscape where the U.S. government ...

A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat, Nevada. NPR's science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel was among them. Inside a top-secret US nuclear ...