Scott Sonner

Rupert Murdoch

A family dispute over the Murdoch media empire may spill out in a Nevada court hearing

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is seen at an event wearing a suit and glasses.

Murdoch media empire’s future hangs in the balance at secret Nevada hearing

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press

A botanist works in her greenhouse to save an endangered plant

A rare endangered plant is at the center of a brewing battle in Nevada, which could supercharge the transition away from fossil fuels

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press

Dean Leano takes a water break while photographing tourists at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign in Las Vegas Thursday, June 6, 2024. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Phoenix sets new ‘dangerously hot’ record of 113 degrees as heat wave settles in 2 weeks before summer even begins

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press

Las Vegas Raiders running back Zamir White wipes sweat from his face during an NFL football practice Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. Parts of California, Nevada and Arizona are expected to bake this week as the first heat wave of the season arrives with triple-digit temperatures forecast for areas including Phoenix, which last summer saw a record 31 straight days of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius). (AP Photo/John Locher)

Temperature expected to hit 110 as parts of Southwest U.S. bake in early heat wave ‘10 to 20 degrees above average’

By Scott Sonner, Anita Snow, and others

Rudy Giuliani speaks before microphone

Rudy Giuliani was served an indictment in Arizona’s fake elector case as he was walking to the car after his 80th birthday celebration

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press

Tiny, light-brown lizard sparks massive clash between environmentalists and oil giants

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press

A skier walks passed cars parked near a wall of snow at Sugar Bowl Resort

California ski resort employees have to tunnel their way to work after area is slammed with 10 feet of snow

By Julie Watson, Scott Sonner, and others

Springsnail

A snail smaller than a fingernail is endangering a key part of Biden’s climate agenda: A huge lithium mine in Nevada

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press

Canyon Mansfield

Government halts use of spring-loaded ‘cyanide bombs’ intended for coyotes that kill too many family pets

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press

Reno air show

Aviation experts baffled, shocked by fatal crash at Reno’s Air Race championships: ‘It is very hard for me to find an explanation’

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press

Muddy desert plain seen on September 3, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada’s Black Rock desert into a mud pit. Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded September 3, in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire, with police investigating one death.<br />
Video footage showed costume-wearing “burners” struggling across the wet gray-brown site, some using trash bags as makeshift boots, while many vehicles were stuck in the sludge. (Photo by Julie JAMMOT / AFP) (Photo by JULIE JAMMOT/AFP via Getty Images)

Burning Man organizers have 3 weeks to tidy up an apocalyptic expanse of abandoned cars, furniture, and trash after the festival turned into a mud bog

By Ed Komenda, Gabe Stern, and others

Wild horse gather

Judge bucks horse people, allows program rounding up wildlife by helicopter to proceed despite 31 mustang deaths

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press

Lake Tahoe tourist

Lake Tahoe’s $5 billion economy reels at being put on Fodor’s stay-away ‘No List’ because of its ‘people problem’

By Scott Sonner, Haven Daley, and others

Mustang round-up

The government’s habit of rounding up wild mustangs by helicopter is under fire after 11 wild horses die in grisly stampede

By Scott Sonner and The Associated Press