A week after the Bureau of Land Management approved Nevada’s third lithium mine, environmentalists and a Western Shoshone group filed a lawsuit alleging that the agency rushed the environmental review ...

ELKO, Nev. – A panicked starling flaps under the rafters and the Beastie Boys shout from the overhead loudspeakers, but the tribal gymnasium seems as still and serious as a classroom before a final ...

Hager said a court decision whether the Western Shoshone could invoke aboriginal rights to block a planned non-nuclear "Divine Strake" weapons explosion at the Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists and an advocacy group for Native Americans are suing the U.S. to try to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an endangered desert wildflower to extinction ...

BLM is narrowing reviews for proposed mining projects in states like Nevada and Utah. Critics say the agency is on shaky ...

My grandmother survived a massacre that took place where the Pony Express and Overland Route funneled settlers into the West during the late 19th century. Most of my Western Shoshone (Newe) ancestors ...

The state water board will decide next week whether to approve a proposal from the Western Slope that would allow one of the oldest and most powerful water rights on the Colorado River to be used to ...

The Shoshone Hydropower Plant in Glenwood Canyon was not operating for nearly all of 2023 and more than half of 2024, adding urgency to a campaign seeking to secure the plant’s water rights for the ...

The Yomba Shoshone Tribe’s access to water in central Nevada received a huge boost, with a $772,000 commitment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency announced Tuesday. The funding comes ...

Western Slope water managers are asking the federal government to help fund a water rights purchase to keep the Colorado River flowing west. In November, the Colorado River Water Conservation District ...

The state water board will decide next week whether to approve a proposal from the Western Slope that would allow one of the oldest and most powerful water rights on the Colorado River to be used to ...