Nevada

Aviation experts say it was likely a visibility issue that caused two racing pilots to collide in mid-air while preparing to land in Reno last weekend. The first- and second-place winners of the National Air Race Championships could have crashed due to an aircraft blind spot, glare from the sun or even a moment of lost focus.

A Las Vegas newspaper is being viciously attacked online for its coverage of an alleged murder of a retired police chief, either because of a misunderstanding or a deliberate attempt to mislead.

Officials say two veteran California pilots were killed when their World War II-era planes collided in midair after completing a race and preparing to land over the weekend at the National Championship Air Races north of Reno.

Authorities say two pilots have died after their planes crashed upon landing at an air racing event in Reno.

Burning Man concertgoers exiting Black Rock City, Nevada, created a traffic jam Tuesday. Flooding and mud had left more than 70,000 people stranded over Labor Day weekend.

Muddy roads that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded for days at a counterculture festival had dried up enough by Monday afternoon to allow them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert.

Partygoers stranded at a counterculture festival by a late summer storm hoped muddy roads would reopen Monday and allow them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert.

Burning Man’s estimated 70,000-plus attendees were isolated at the venue known as Black Rock City as rain returned Sunday and closed roads, muddy campgrounds, and one reported death darkened the day.

Las Vegas residents are drying out after two days of heavy rainfall that flooded streets, prompted various water rescues, shut down a portion of Interstate 15 south of the city and possibly resulted in at least one death.

Tens of thousands of people gathered for the Burning Man festival remain have been stranded in the Nevada desert after storms that swept through the area.

Movement in and out of Black Rock City has been halted and the airport is closed, according to organizers.

Hilary, the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, swept people into swollen rivers, toppled trees onto homes and flooded roadways as the massive system marched northward Monday, prompting flood watches and warnings in more than a half dozen states.

A legal battle over the U.S. government’s deadly capture of thousands of wild horses in Nevada is getting a hard look from a federal judge in Reno.

A man in California is currently behind bars after he broke into two Stateline resort condominiums and fondled women’s feet while they were asleep, officials said.

The largest wildfire burning in California generated dangerous natural phenomena known as fire whirls as it grew to more than 77,000 acres on the state’s border with Nevada.

The infection, caused by the ameba Naegleria fowleri, is rare and almost always fatal, according to health officials.

The 11 deaths so far include five young foals, four horses with broken necks and a stallion with a snapped rear leg that was chased by a helicopter and horseback rider

Two women staying at a resort in Stateline, Nevada, reported intrusions in their rooms on Sunday and Monday morning, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said.

The small town of Elko in rural northeastern Nevada is being invaded by a swarm of blood-red crickets.

Mormon crickets have converged on a Nevada community, covering vegetation, the ground, and even climbing the walls.