The fifth tallest peak, Mount Jefferson, is near Round Mountain in central Nevada's Nye County. Want to escape to the mountains without leaving civilization? Mount Charleston offers lodges and ...

Under California's Sierra Nevada mountains, a slow yet powerful force will change the entirety of the Earth's crust there.

A mule deer pregnant with twin fawns was shot and left to die in the Ruby Mountains, and now officials with the Nevada ...

The lack of oil and gas in Nevada's Ruby Mountains hasn't stopped developer interest, and a 90-day public comment period ...

Granada is a city at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Spain, at the crossing of four rivers. It has a population of ...

A string of storms in California and Nevada brought some moisture back to the West this winter, improving snowpack in the region, but not enough to erase deficits in the state.

A recent spate of storms across Central California has brought the state's snowpack to near average levels, but that's not ...

U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., has reintroduced a lands bill known as the Northern Nevada Economic Development and ...

California’s snowpack is now 85% of average, with more snow in the northern Sierra and less in the south. Amid warming winters, the state is seeing less snow at lower elevations.

But on a warm afternoon in December, 77 of these animals were captured near the town of Alpine and hauled back home to build ...

Groundwater wells in Southern Nevada have maintained stable water levels over the past two years, officials said, defying a ...