“Rants from the Hill” are Michael Branch’s monthly musings on life in the high country of western Nevada’s Great Basin Desert. Those of us who live out in the western Great Basin Desert, up in the ...

The Washoe people believe the Tahoe Basin is the spiritual center of their world. They only have limited access to its shores but grassroots nonprofit aims to change that, healing both land and people ...

ZEPHYR COVE – A former administrator from Washoe County School District was selected as the new principal of Whittell High School in Zephyr Cove, officials announced Thursday. Crespin Esquivel, who ...

This time of year, if you have a low-pressure center somewhere up near the state of Washington, almost inevitably that will mean sunshine for us, and that's exactly the situation we have coming up ...

A trip across Washoe Valley, especially with winter storms scraping the Sierra Nevada, can yield everything from blowing snow and sunshine to rain and fierce wind -- all on the same trip. It's weather ...

All Washoe County schools and South Lake Tahoe Unified School District schools are on a 2-hour delay Monday morning due to snowfall. Schools in Incline Village and Zephyr Cove will be closed due to ...