WASHINGTON — After a gray, rainy day at the U.S. Capitol, the clouds parted, revealing a sunset that one could call borrowed from the desert skies of Nevada. A bald eagle circled overhead, squirrels ...

The Capitol Christmas Tree, also known as the People’s Tree, in Washington, D.C. is coming from Nevada for the first time ever this year, and the Silver State’s largest forest needs help decorating it ...

The federal government may be shut down, but Silver Belle is on a tight schedule for her cross-country road trip from the forest of Nevada to the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Splayed out ...

(AP) – As a tiny seedling began sprouting in the forest along Mount Rose Highway west of Reno, the Vietnam War was ending under President Gerald Ford, the price of gas was 53 cents per gallon and the ...

In 1922, according to an article in The Daily Appeal , four catalpa trees graced the Capitol grounds. "They are in full bloom, and with their immense green leaves and beautiful snow-white blossoms, ...

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 ...

Even a government shutdown can't stop this year's official Capitol Christmas tree — the first ever from Nevada — from getting to Washington, D.C. While many members of the U.S. Forest Service and the ...

As a tiny seedling began sprouting in the forest along Mount Rose Highway west of Reno, the Vietnam War was ending under President Gerald Ford, the price of gas was 53 cents per gallon and the ...