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Torrential rains that closed roads, forced many to walk miles barefoot through the muck and slowed eventual exodus of vehicles might complicate the cleanup efforts

Event organizers said they started to let traffic flow out on the main road around 2 p.m. local time Monday — even as they urged attendees to delay their exit to help ease traffic

Event organizers said in the morning that it was still too wet for a safe mass departure of RVs and other vehicles but hoped traffic could begin flowing later in the day with the help of sunny and mostly clear skies

The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said the death happened during the event but offered few details as the investigation continued, including the identity of the deceased person or the suspected cause of death

So far, no deaths, serious injuries or extreme damages have been reported in California, though officials warned that risks remain, especially in the mountainous regions where the wet hillsides could unleash mudslides

The National Hurricane Center in Miami downgraded Hilary to a post-tropical storm Monday, but warned that ‘continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding’ was expected over portions of the southwestern U.S.

The first couple is renting a private home on Lake Tahoe, the massive alpine lake that abuts California and Nevada and is a tourist attraction

A wetter winter and conservation measures have helped improve the river’s health a bit this summer, but experts warn a drier future is ahead

The Nevada GOP is insisting on holding its own caucus despite a new state law calling for a primary election, a move critics say is designed to benefit former president Donald Trump

The fake elector plan was central to the federal indictment filed against Trump earlier this month that alleged he tried to overturn results of the 2020 election

The workers say they want a fair contract that will ensure “one job is enough to provide for their families”

As of Wednesday morning, it was 30% contained after roaring through California’s massive Mojave National Preserve and crossing into Nevada

The third criminal case into Trump details what prosecutors say was a massive effort to “impair, obstruct, and defeat” the federal process for certifying the results of a presidential election

The blaze was mapped at roughly 125 square miles on Tuesday, with 23% containment. That makes it the largest wildfire of the season in California

The historic heat began blasting the region in June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California’s desert

The historic heat began blasting the lower Southwest U.S. in late June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California’s desert

The York Fire that erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve crossed the state line into Nevada on Sunday

The number represents the toll of people who died in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Two people who initially survived died in subsequent years from causes that were attributed to wounds they suffered

Before this year, the longest stretch of days where temperatures reached at least 110 degrees was 18, in 1974

The former president’s political team has been working for years to shape the mosaic of local GOP rules around how delegates are awarded in each state after the complex and sometimes convoluted rules tripped up his 2016 campaign

The prospect of record-breaking heat in the California national park has drawn floods of European tourists exposing themselves to the dangers of a uniquely aggressive ecosystem

In Arizona, the monsoon season officially begins June 15 and can bring powerful storms with high winds, lightning and heavy bursts of rain

Biden faces only minor primary challengers in self-help author Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Authorities said 31 cows died in the northern Alabama town of Berlin during Saturday’s severe weather when lightning struck the tree they were hiding under

Speaking to Nevada Republicans for the first time as a presidential candidate, DeSantis made no direct mention of the former president’s legal woes

The first political rally of the president’s reelection campaign is being held at a union gathering in Pennsylvania, punctuating just how much the president is counting on labor support to carry him to a second term

The issue pits Nevada’s powerful tourism industry, including trade unions, against a growing chorus of mostly progressive groups that, throughout the country, are raising concerns about use of tax dollars to finance sports stadiums