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.

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.

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 ...