As President Joe Biden nears the end of his time in office, his administration is proposing lasting protections for a mountain range commonly referred to as the “Swiss Alps of Nevada.” Even though ...

Though little evidence exists suggesting northeast Nevada’s Ruby Mountains hold potential for oil production, the Trump administration canceled a Biden-era effort to rule out new leases there for 20 ...

Federal land managers have canceled their proposal to withdraw about 264,000 acres of public land in Nevada’s Ruby Mountain from oil, gas and geothermal development. The U.S. Forest Service said the ...

President Joe Biden has announced plans to protect Nevada's Ruby Mountains by halting oil, gas and geothermal development for the next two decades. As his final weeks in the White House wind down, ...

LAMOILLE, Nev. — Forty-two years ago, Joe Royer was driving from his home in Marin County, California, to his winter gig as a ski patroller in Snowbird, Utah. As he cruised along Interstate 80, he ...

President Joe Biden’s administration said Monday it is taking steps to bar oil, gas and geothermal development for 20 years in northeastern Nevada’s Ruby Mountains. The administration said it has ...

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) on Wednesday passed legislation to protect Lake Tahoe and Nevada’s Ruby Mountains through the Senate Committee on Energy and ...

The residents of the cowboy town of Elko, Nevada have a massive secret in their backyard. It’s called the Ruby Mountains Wilderness. Just 30 minutes southeast of Elko, rising from northeastern ...

ELKO, Nev.— The U.S. Forest Service today rejected an earlier plan to lease public lands for oil drilling and fracking in Nevada’s iconic Ruby Mountains. The Trump administration proposal to auction ...

Fossil fuel speculators are once again targeting Nevada’s Ruby Mountains for oil and gas drilling. But it’s unlikely the second attempt to unlock land for fossil fuel development will be any more ...