A new study shows that human-caused climate change is altering the region’s temperatures and worsening extreme drought.
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Flooding and snow combined with excessive heat to cause misery for some visitors to national parks near Las Vegas in 2023.
The popular Angels Landing trail at Zion National Park is expected to be packed with visitors. Hikers now can apply for four seasonal lotteries.
Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died at a hospital Tuesday night, hours after he shot himself while hiding in a crawlspace underneath a house in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Officials have closed some roads in and out of Death Valley National Park and the Mojave National Preserve after they were inundated over the weekend with mud and debris caused by by flash flooding.
A cruise ship that struck an iceberg in Alaska has docked in Seattle for repairs. A Las Vegas family who was onboard says the impact sounded like a loud door being slammed.
Better weather on Thursday helped the battle against a huge California forest fire threatening communities around Lake Tahoe.
The Caldor Fire’s gallop toward South Lake Tahoe eased throughout the day Wednesday, with the fire still swelling to nearly 208,000 acres but containment also increasing to 23 percent.
A triangular metal monolith has appeared outside a Romanian city, just days after a recently discovered similar structure was mysteriously removed from remote southeastern Utah.
Mathematical models aim to chart the path of the new coronavirus in the U.S. and Nevada, but the outcomes can vary wildly depending on basic assumptions about the disease.