Before Anglo settlers arrived in present-day Nevada, the Western Shoshone Indians occupied half of the state’s current land area. Now, most of the tribe’s members live on tiny reservations, many of ...

Hager said a court decision whether the Western Shoshone could invoke aboriginal rights to block a planned non-nuclear "Divine Strake" weapons explosion at the Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas ...

ELKO, Nev. – A panicked starling flaps under the rafters and the Beastie Boys shout from the overhead loudspeakers, but the tribal gymnasium seems as still and serious as a classroom before a final ...

Western Slope elected officials, water managers, engineers and conservationists met in Grand Junction on Friday, Oct. 3, all ...

A week after the Bureau of Land Management approved Nevada’s third lithium mine, environmentalists and a Western Shoshone group filed a lawsuit alleging that the agency rushed the environmental review ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists and an advocacy group for Native Americans are suing the U.S. to try to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an endangered desert wildflower to extinction ...

My grandmother survived a massacre that took place where the Pony Express and Overland Route funneled settlers into the West during the late 19th century. Most of my Western Shoshone (Newe) ancestors ...

The Yomba Shoshone Tribe’s access to water in central Nevada received a huge boost, with a $772,000 commitment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency announced Tuesday. The funding comes ...

Western Slope water managers are asking the federal government to help fund a water rights purchase to keep the Colorado River flowing west. In November, the Colorado River Water Conservation District ...

A million acre-feet of water in the Colorado River — and the efforts by Western Slope water partners to keep it there — ...