You have the power to stop misinformation. When local news coverage is scarce, how do you find out what’s on the ballot in your community? As legacy news sources struggle – especially in rural areas – information becomes harder to find, and it can feel especially fraught as we prepare to vote. Meanwhile, pink-slime news outfits, which masquerade as local news sources but are funded by political partisans, and social media rumor mills are popping up to fill the void left by downsized or shuttered local news outlets.

Fire ecology is a scientific discipline concerned with natural processes involving fire in an ecosystem and the ecological effects, the interactions between fire and the abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem, and the role as an ecosystem process. Dry and just plain hot, you could literally fry an egg...

Those who climb the Kor-Ingalls Route of Castleton Tower, a classic adventure on a coveted desert tower, face a choice near the top. There are two ways to scale the rough, tough, foot-wide crack between its vertical sandstone faces. Option one requires shoving the left side of the body into...

Author: Pepper Trail. Used with permission from Writers on the Range. Let’s play a game, the climate-change game that every living thing on Earth has no choice but to play, starting … now. The game is called Adapt/Move/Die, and the rules are simple. The object of the game...

In 1976, the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City was established “to enrich the quality of life by cultivating arts and culture for all” and one of the truest ways that the Arts Center is fulfilling its mission is with the purchase of a new mobile stage to support its popular summer concert series.

Last year, with the love and support of my colleagues at Third Act, I changed my pronouns on my email signature. Then in January, I braved the lines at the Nevada DMV and changed my gender marker from male to X. At 62 years old, it was one of the most life-affirming steps I’ve ever taken. I continue to feel a sense of lightness, when I hear myself referred to as B or “they” by someone, especially for the first time,

Three presidents have signed Bears Ears proclamations. Barack Obama established Bears Ears National Monument in 2016, but supporters were devastated when Donald Trump eviscerated the monument the following year, reducing its area by 85%. In 2021, President Joe Biden restored the original boundaries and then some. What’s clear is that...

He said it like it was a bad thing, when ninety percent of the people in Virginia City that day were putting balls in their mouth, and they liked it. Almost everyone was dressed in green as it approached St. Patrick’s Day, which happened the day after the annual Virginia City Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry. Otherwise known as the Testicle Festival, on this 33rd annual event, eleven Northern Nevada chefs were given sixty pounds of raw bull testicles which they used to grind, cook, and place in tacos, tamales, jalapeno poppers, bangers, and more to detract from what they really were…and all served up with a side of puns.

In the political arena, the mechanics of the Electoral College can result in the election of a President who loses the national popular vote by millions. Half the country’s population (living in 10 states) is represented by 20 U.S. Senators, the other half, living in less populous areas, has 80 senators.

Published with permission from the Freedom of the Press Foundation whose work is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution International License. While the indictment is short on facts, it reportedly arises, in part, from Burke’s dissemination of outtakes from a 2022 Tucker Carlson interview with Ye, formerly Kanye West, where Ye made antisemitic remarks that Fox News chose not to air. Ye’s antisemitism has been global news ever since. The indictment, which also alludes to sports-related content Burke allegedly intercepted, charges Burke with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and with intentionally disclosing illegally intercepted communications.

A new battleground is forming in the state of Nevada, where an influx of federal funding and state-level tax incentives are seeking to kickstart a critical mineral economy necessary to support the renewable energy transition. But while critical minerals provide foundational components to all of our electronic devices – from everyday technologies like cell phones and laptops, to renewable energy technologies like wind turbines and electric vehicle batteries – extracting them from the ground does not come without its costs.

This story appeared originally in the Nevada Appeal. Republished here with permission. Brewery Arts Center Executive Director Spike McGuire, 37, believes free live music can save the world. “It’s a great uniter,” he said. “And that’s what we need more than anything right now, ways of getting the citizens of...

Republished with permission by The Journalist’s Resource, Informing the News. For nearly four decades now, a federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, has given Americans the right to receive care at emergency departments, regardless of income or insurance status. The law applies to all kinds of emergencies, including pregnant people in labor, or those for whom an abortion may be medically necessary to preserve their health or save their life.

Used with permission from The Journalist’s Resource. Update: On Dec. 13, the Supreme Court justices announced that they would take up the case on the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a statement on the same day urging the court to rule in favor of keeping the pill on the market and available to patients. The oral arguments are scheduled for March 26, 2024.

The following is the lead story in The Institute for Nonprofit News’s latest newsletter titled “INNovation, Explore the Latest in Nonprofit News.” A special tip of the cap to Alejandra Rubio, Ally photojournalist and reporter, whose stellar work made this reporting possible. A lithium mine under construction...

Two oil tankers collided beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in 1971, spilling 840,000 gallons of crude oil into San Francisco Bay and killing countless fish and seabirds. Thousands of volunteers tried in vain to save the wildlife. John Francis, a 20-year-old Black environmentalist disgusted by the loss and suffering, chose another response: “stop driving cars” and “use my life for change.”

It was 2 p.m. on a recent Sunday in the western Colorado town of Paonia, population 1,500, not an ideal time to gather a crowd to meet the famous Rosa Parks, the woman who kicked off the modern civil rights movement. Yet surprisingly, about 100 people gathered at the Blue...