More than a decade after Nevada lawmakers passed a bill to remove coal from NV Energy’s quiver, the state’s last ...

You might also consider visiting some of Nevada's ghost towns, including Goldfield, a well-preserved ghost town offering a historical glimpse into the Gold Rush Era. If you're visiting May through ...

In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains ... the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak ...

Death by wildflower In many ways, Nevada’s so-called lithium rush isn’t a race at all. There are many bureaucratic hurdles a mining project can take upward of a decade to clear to ensure it ...

And we went eastward almost to the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. My family had resided in these geographical areas way before there were any European people, even way before the Gold Rush.

The toads are threatened by multiple proposed gold-mining projects surrounding their habitat. The species lives only in southern Nevada’s Oasis Valley, a rare and biologically diverse wetland area ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, fueling Stockton's rapid growth, many are still digging for riches all over California.