Less than a week before Halloween, in the uncertainty of a federal government shutdown, U.S. Forest Service officials and a local sawyer harvested the nation’s first Christmas tree from Nevada. The ...

The Nevada State Capitol building in Carson City was completed on May 1, 1871. But was its silver-colored dome actually cast out of silver? This article by Guy Rocha, former state archivist with the ...

The holiday season is officially on its way—courtesy of a 53-foot red fir named Silver Belle, which began its journey to the U.S. Capitol Building Sunday morning. Harvested from the Carson Ranger ...