7+ hour, 4+ min ago  (343+ words) Thursday, July 2, 2026 | 2 a. m. From Pony Express routes to a 1940s divorce ranch, a 4. 5-mile stretch of the Carson River steeped in Nevada history is now the state's newest park, Gov. Joe Lombardo announced Wednesday. The 1, 627-acre park, which spans both the north…...

7+ hour, 2+ min ago  (934+ words) Nevada's newest state park stands out for what it doesn't have. Modern development. Noise. Or even a name. Nevada State Parks and Western Rivers Conservancy announced early Wednesday a more than 1, 600-acre land conveyance to the state to create Nevada's…...

12+ min ago  (589+ words) Summer is officially here! All together now: Hallelujah! As usual, we are about to really kick things off with a Fourth of July celebration. This year is something special, though: America's 250th birthday! The Fourth of July is like the Super…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (29+ words) USGS (. gov) Official websites use. gov Secure. gov websites use HTTPS Midnight Pass post-Hurricane Milton Aerial image of Midnight Pass post-Hurricane Milton....

5+ hour, 4+ min ago  (655+ words) Thursday, July 2, 2026 Instead of spending summer days at the beach relaxing with friends or happily doing nothing at all, four teenagers are spending their summer picking up garbage, The Jamestown Press reported June 28, 2007. The four teenagers " Mark Cote, 16, Eoin Walsh,…...

6+ min ago  (226+ words) I think of Mumbet, an enslaved woman in Massachusetts in the late 1700s, who put our country on what should have been its true course....

13+ min ago  (141+ words) . .. To read it, we never unrolled it physically. Instead, we scanned it with high-resolution X-rays, reconstructed the wound sheet inside the volume, flattened it into a readable surface, and used machine learning to bring out the faint traces of ancient…...

45+ min ago  (452+ words) A new study compares the carved symbolism of G'bekli Tepe's Vulture Stone with ritual imagery from the Trypillia culture, suggesting that early farming societies in Anatolia and Eastern Europe may have shared cosmological ideas about time, death, sacred space and…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago  (420+ words) Continuous rainfall has severely impacted Uttarakhand, with over 60 roads blocked due to debris and boulders. Efforts to reopen them are underway, but recurring landslides triggered by incessant rain are causing repeated blockages. The India Meteorological Department's Uttarakhand centre has issued…...

14+ min ago  (319+ words) An explosive wildfire ignited in south-central Colorado on Monday, June 29, adding to the growing list of wildfires burning across the state this summer. The Aspen Acres Fire quickly ballooned in size over the span of just 24 hours, blazing through at…...