SCOTT SONNER

FILE – In this Jan. 13, 2011, file photo, two young wild horses play while grazing in Reno, Nev. Federal land managers say it will take 20 years and cost more than $1 billion over the first six years alone to slash wild horse populations to sustainable levels necessary to protect U.S. range land. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File) NVREN402 NVREN402

May 13, 2020 at 10:16 pm

Cost of reining in nation's wild horses 'could be staggering,' agency says

The Bureau of Land Management also reports that if nothing is done to curb annual growth rates of herds that naturally double every four or...

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May 11, 2020 at 3:57 pm

Biggest US solar project approved in Nevada despite critics

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Trump administration announced final approval Monday of the largest solar energy project in the U.S. and one of the biggest...

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May 1, 2020 at 9:46 pm

Remote Northern California county defies stay-at-home order

ALTURAS, Calif. (AP) — Defiance came with biscuits and gravy as a remote California county became the first to buck Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order....

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May 1, 2020 at 4:24 pm

Rural California county hums back to life, defying order VIEW

ALTURAS, Calif. (AP) — At the Brass Rail, two neon signs were beaming “OPEN" Friday, as the town and county slowly hummed to life, the...

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April 14, 2020 at 11:56 am

Nevada town fights plan to fix century-old canal amid COVID

FERNLEY, Nev. (AP) — A conflict emerging on northern Nevada's high desert marks an unusual crossroads for a pandemic, a relic of American westward expansion...