If any state should know about bad bets, it’s the gambling mecca Nevada. But it rolled the dice and came up snake eyes when it won the five-state bidding war Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) conducted for ...

For Bob McKeever, all of the fun starts right before sundown. McKeever, 77, is one of 16 volunteers helping Nevada’s state herpetologist, Jason Jones, cruise the roads of the Mojave Desert for ...

Hitting the desert trails often is a Southern Nevada spring hiker’s key to keeping company with lizards. After hiding for months from winter’s cooler temperatures, western zebra-tailed lizards have ...

CARSON CITY - Snake tongs, according to a company that manufactures the device, are long, metal sticks that "allow for the humane handling of snakes." They are dandy tools for handling rattlesnakes.

Nevada’s wildlife officials are warning people about rattlesnake dangers. Personally, I’ve only seen rattlesnakes twice in all my years of hiking Nevada. One was in the flatland approach to Prison ...

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Beneath a blazing June sun, Alysa Lloyd and Mauricio Duran prepare to hike into a rocky area known as Rattlesnake Mountain in southeast Reno. Before they start walking, a tiny ant cruises by, carrying ...

Moments later, Rene Lamendola saw Curtis, her 2-year-old Corgi mix, sprinting away from a bush “and acting really weird … When I looked down I saw two spots on his nose that were starting to bleed.” ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Saturday and Sunday will be the warmest days of the year so far, and some areas of Southern Nevada will hit triple digits. If you plan on getting outdoors for a hike, walk, or ...

For years, Snake Valley ranchers and environmentalists have complained Las Vegas' designs on rural groundwater would wreck their livelihoods and dry up fragile desert ecosystems in Utah's West Desert.