Though it's remote and undeveloped, the land, now designated as the Basin and Range National Monument, was home to Indigenous Americans dating back at least 13,000 years.

“It’s kind of typical faulting of the basin and range province mostly associated with the state of Nevada, but Southern Arizona is considered to be part of the basin and range region. ...

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook northern Nevada on December 9, 2024. It was the largest quake since May 15, 2020, when a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Monte Cristo Range.

The singular “basin” is deceptive: This region is the amalgamation of many ancient lake basins, now full of sagebrush, divided by many ranges with mountains topping 13,000 or 14,000 feet in ...

Along with familiar desert canyons and mesas of the Colorado Plateau, they include vast areas of the Sonoran Desert, and the Basin and Range regions of the West, among others.

Basin and Range is the only winery in Nevada to produce nothing but estate wines — that is, wines made only with fruit farmed by the winery in the region, not purchased from elsewhere.

Lake Abert in 2021. Last summer, dust from the dried lake blew over 85 miles from the source. Credit: Courtesy of Ron Larson Posted in Articles Water The West’s salt lakes are turning to dust.

The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a winter weather advisory for portions of Western Nevada Basin and Range region and portions of north Washoe County from 11 p.m. Monday night ...

Arapahoe Basin and Keystone will open on Saturday, becoming first Front Range ski areas to begin season. Wolf Creek in southern Colorado opened on Oct. 22.

That means the region would produce the most oil of any other U.S.’ leading regions at about 5.6 million bpd and the second-most gas at about 22.5 billion cfd by the end of April, the EIA reported.