Nevada's elected officials are concerned that nuclear weapons may again be tested here, after President Donald Trump declared ...

David Crete, a former Air Force security police officer at the Nevada Test and Training Range, added another name to his list of military employees and contractors who have died ...

A former Nevada Test Site official who for a time was one of three test controllers — people responsible for ensuring the safe execution of nuclear testing — died last week at 89. John D. Stewart died ...

The film discusses the routine occurrence of atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site, viewed from the perspective of residents in St. George, Utah. It explains the necessity of these tests for national ...

Nevada Democrats are pushing for more detail into Donald Trump’s call to resume nuclear testing as members of the president’s administration say publicly that explosive testing is unlikely. Sens.

On October 18, beneath the Nevada desert, the National Nuclear Security Administration intentionally set off a non-nuclear explosion. The US Geological Survey registered its magnitude at 1.7, ...

Like his Air Force security police squadron colleagues, retired Maui Police Detective Mark Hada has suffered from lipomas, has susceptibility to bronchial issues and other health problems that prevent ...

High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. Zitzer is studying the effects on the Mojave Desert ecosystem of ...

When the baby boomers of St. George were children, radioactive ash from nuclear test explosions in Nevada regularly drifted toward the red bluffs of their town and fell like snow. They played in it ...

Nevada is emerging as a major battleground to determine the fate of a century-and-a-half-old mining law as demand for valuable minerals in the U.S soars. Mining developers looking to extract minerals ...

As the beginning of the Atomic Age fades into history, archaeologists work to document a time of uncertainty and experimentation Wearing protective goggles, observers from Canada and Britain watch MET ...