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  • 'Sound science' in doubt at Yucca Mountain

    Recently released e-mails show that federal employees falsified information about the safety of the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev.

    by J.M. McCord, Apr 18, 2005

  • A Western historian and a Western hero

    Las Vegas historian, author and community activist Hal Rothman may be dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease, but he’s determined to go on his own terms – with courage, grace and a sense of humor.

    by Matt O’Brien, Feb 05, 2007

  • Activists raise a stink over outhouse

    In Nevada, the county-rights activists of the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade clash with the Forest Service over the cleanup of an outhouse on the closed South Canyon Road

    by Josh Garrett-Davis, Nov 10, 2003
  • As goes Nevada, so goes the nation?

    As goes Nevada, so goes the nation?

    As Nevada sinks deeper into decline, party politics give way to pragmatism.

    by Judith Lewis Mernit, Oct 29, 2012

  • At Yucca Mountain, deadlines take precedence over science

    The Bush administration is ignoring the warnings of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board created by Congress, and is racing ahead with its plans to store nuclear waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain

    by Paul P. Craig, May 24, 2004
  • Balancing act

    Balancing act

    A look at how Western state governments are managing their budget shortfalls.

    by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Apr 19, 2010
  • BLM "ecosanctuaries" unlikely to provide relief for wild horses

    BLM "ecosanctuaries" unlikely to provide relief for wild horses

    Proposal will cost just as much as long-term storage of captive horses, and can only take a small number of those now stuck on government pastures

    by Dave Philipps, Nov 12, 2012

  • BLM busted for booting whistleblower

    BLM ordered to pay whistleblower Earle Dixon

    by Staff, Oct 16, 2006

  • Burning money

    Wildfire financial data

    by Staff, Oct 16, 2006

  • Colorado River states reach landmark agreement

    The seven states of the Colorado River Basin have come to a groundbreaking agreement that, among other things, will allow cities such as Las Vegas to lease water from out-of-state farms during times of drought

    by Matt Jenkins, Feb 20, 2006
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