Recent New York Times reporting on a Minnesota scandal may have cast unwelcome attention to the state’s Somali community, but ...

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On Forest Service land in the Lake Tahoe Basin alone, it was estimated that there were 250,000 burn piles in 2021—conditions that can elevate wildfire risk. In an article published by UC Davis, forest ...

Despite overwhelming public support, a funding measure for a new library has led to contentious arguments around its ...

Giant sequoias, always majestic and impressive, appear even more so beneath a coat of snow. When I toured Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park for the first time in winter, enormous, beautiful ...

With the recent walkout by students across our region and the nation, we thought it’d be a good time to take a look at some of the more prominent youth movements throughout the country’s history. The ...

Aharon Williams is the union delegate for the only unionized Starbucks store in Reno, Nev. who helped lead a strike in December 2025. Photo Lynn Lazaro / Sierra Nevada Ally On a recent cold winter day ...

Immigration Lawyer Kyle Edgerton on his way to work. Photo by Alex Couraud / Sierra Nevada Ally As a bike commuter, Kyle Edgerton spends his mornings navigating the hills and curves around Reno to get ...

This article first appeared on High Country News. Fifty miles east of Reno, Nevada, on the edge of Fallon, a small agricultural and military town, John King looked across a noisy highway toward the ...

Editor’s Note: The following is part of a series from the Sierra Nevada Ally, called Vet Voices, where military veterans in our region share their diverse perspectives, experiences, and ideas–in their ...

Editor’s Note: The following is part of a series from the Sierra Nevada Ally, called Vet Voices, where military veterans in our region share their diverse perspectives, experiences, and ideas–in their ...

When Crystal, a Sparks resident, contracted COVID-19 in 2021, she lost her taste and smell for nine months. Just as her senses began to return, new complications emerged — fatigue, memory fog, and a ...