Nationally, extreme heat causes more deaths each year than any other weather event, including floods, hurricanes and ...

The National Weather Service in Reno has upgraded a Fire Weather Watch to a Red Flag Warning for the Northern Sierra Front, ...

According to the National Weather Service, as much as 1.5 inches of rain fell Friday afternoon in an area of the northwest ...

Following an active Thursday of weather events, more showers and storms with flooding chances are expected across the ...

Thunderstorms from the east are expected to bring light rain to the High Desert and local mountains over the weekend. Flash Flood Warnings were issued on Friday afternoon for parts of San ...

Nevada isn’t just slot machines and desert heat—it’s a wild mashup of neon cities, ghost towns, alien sightings, and people ...

After a hot Sunday at 111 degrees, plus overnight clouds, we had a very warm start to Monday. A mix of 80s and 90s for lows ...

Desert Companion welcomed Heidi Kyser as staff writer in January 2014. In 2024, Heidi was promoted to managing editor, charged with overseeing the Desert Companion and State of Nevada newsrooms.

A nearly 1.5-mile stretch of East Tropicana Avenue remained closed and hundreds of NV Energy customers were still without power Thursday in the wake of Tuesday’s damaging windstorms. Tuesday’s ...

But the big winter led some to hike southbound (“sobo”) instead. I also opted to walk through the Mojave Desert first while snow melted in the mountains. Only time would tell if this strategy would ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow.