LAS VEGAS — For less than a year, the desert landscape and sacred mountains of Avi Kwa Ame have been spared from the sprawl of developers and the wandering eye of the mining industry. South of Las ...

Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum being sworn into a confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Jan. 16, 2025. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Newly confirmed ...

Nevada is home to four national monuments—Tule Springs Fossil Beds, in the northwest corner of the Las Vegas Valley; Avi Kwa Ame, surrounding Searchlight; Gold Butte, northeast of Lake Mead; and Basin ...

A federal bill filed on Thursday takes aim at the president’s longstanding authority to designate national monuments. The Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act, sponsored by Reps. Mark ...

The monuments in Texas and Nevada include more than half a million acres. President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the establishment of two new national monuments, protecting land totaling more than ...

ELY, Nev. — White attackers turned a lush, high desert oasis in eastern Nevada, with its bubbling springs and a rare stand of Rocky Mountain junipers, into killing fields. They massacred hundreds of ...

The Obama administration designated 1.6 million acres of Utah and Nevada as national monuments Wednesday, including one controversial area of Utah that is rankling congressional Republicans. The White ...

Explore the stunning Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada! In this video, we embark on an adventure through the Gold Butte ...

It's not often that an entire state is defined by one tourist attraction, but Nevada is nothing if not out of the ordinary. The world-renowned tourist city of Las Vegas is consistently voted America's ...