We were off Manhattan Island. We were on our way home. The blue sky, fluffy clouds, and the rich verdant greens of September ...

Photo courtesy Amtec Photos, CC BY-SA 2.0 If you’ve been looking for a job anytime in the last year or so, it’s probably been pretty tough to not only find work, but just to land an interview. I’ve ...

Why not honor Susan Thew instead? Women mountaineers were nearly nonexistent when she hiked hundreds of High Sierra miles ...

As of December 2025, more than 7.9 million Venezuelans, or 23 percent of the population, have left the country since 2014, according to U.N. International Organization for Migration. So when the ...

This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Stripped of our most basic needs — water, food, shelter — people become barbaric and inhumane, or at ...

National Poetry Month has been touted as the largest literary event in America, held every April in towns and cities nationwide, since 1996. The celebration brings together poets, students, educators, ...

Those of us who live in the western Great Basin Desert, up in the foothills on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, are all too familiar with a wind that is known locally as the Washoe Zephyr.

For the most part, however, warming temperatures mean precipitation falls as rain instead of snow, changing the decisions water managers make about storing runoff from the Sierras, which supplies ...

Editor’s Note: This story contains accounts of violence in prison including sexual violence. This story has been updated to include information about the type of attack that occurred during this time.

Nevadans will elect their next governor in 2026 in what is expected to be one of the state’s most closely watched races. The governor serves as Nevada’s chief executive, overseeing state agencies, ...

Nevadans will elect their next state controller in 2026 in a race focused on government accountability, financial oversight, and how the state tracks and manages public spending. The state controller ...

In the years before Nevada became a state in 1864, hundreds of hopefuls made their way out West, hoping to strike it rich as part of the California Gold Rush. Along the way, these white settlers often ...