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Not since the Southern Pacific railroad rolled into this sleepy high desert town in Nevada more than a century ago has there been such excitement -- Tesla Motors and other technology companies are coming.
San Francisco sued Nevada in 2013, over accounts of patients who were discharged from Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, given bus tickets to cities in California and directed to seek further care there.
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 4.2-magnitude earthquake hit the northwest corner of Nevada on Saturday night — the third earthquake above magnitude 4 to hit the region in the past 10 months.
Horse advocates are calling for an investigation after the Bureau of Land Management killed 28 wild mustangs from a recent roundup, saying they were emaciated and at risk of starvation.
Photographer Frank Quirarte returned with some highlights from this year's event...
As thousands of revelers start making the trek home from the Burning Man festival in Northern Nevada, newly released documents reveal the FBI spied on the event a few years ago.
The Burning Man art festival officially began Sunday with long lines to get in, and lots of dust.
Burning Man is crawling with bugs this year, and organizers don't know why.
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft say they've filed applications for permits to operate in Nevada.
Police arrested a Nevada resident on suspicion of robbing at least two pharmacies this week, including one in Concord, Concord police said.
Dressed in polo shirts, tie-dyes and button-downs, about 75 people with medical marijuana cards lined up outside Silver State Relief, between a sub shop and pizza place in Sparks, to be among the first to buy as much as a half-ounce of pot for $195.
A married couple was forced to make an emergency landing in their small custom airplane along U.S. 95 near Fernley.
Like reservoirs throughout the drought-stricken West, Nevada's Lake Mead is far below capacity, down more than 60 percent. But even as the drought deepens, tourists are flowing in.
The Lowell fire has burned 4,000 acres of brush and is threatening dozens of buildings in the Sierra foothills.
For decades, forest rangers in wooden towers across the West scanned the horizon with binoculars for smoke that could signal the start of a wildfire.
Rains since last fall have brought Colorado out of a drought and returned the state to a condition that the National Weather Service says it hasn't seen since August 2009.
Recommendations on affordable lodging, dining and attractions in Las Vegas for the entire family.
Burning Man festival organizers are pushing back after the U.S. Bureau of Land Management requested upgraded accommodations for its officials at this year's event in the Nevada desert.
Nearly 70,000 people from all over the world expected to attend Burning Man later this summer have a new way to travel to the Nevada desert.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk defended his business practices following an LA Times report that his three companies have taken billions in government subsidies, saying "the article makes it seem as though my company is getting some huge check, which is fundamentally false."
The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 and later a revised magnitude of 4.8 struck south Nevada north of Las Vegas Friday.
An unseasonably cold spring storm pushed south through California and Nevada on Thursday, bringing snow to Sierra Nevada peaks that have largely been free of snowpack after another dry year.
There's been much talk about self-driving cars that could soon be coming to showrooms. Now, self-driving trucks could soon be rolling down the freeways.
A San Jose man scarfed down 48 hot dogs in 10 minutes in Las Vegas this weekend to earn the title of male Nevada Hot Dog Eating Champion.
For the first time in history, the May snow survey has been canceled due to California's severe drought.
