The federal government may be shut down, but Silver Belle is on a tight schedule for her cross-country road trip from the forest of Nevada to the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Splayed out ...

WASHINGTON — After a gray, rainy day at the U.S. Capitol, the clouds parted, revealing a sunset that one could call borrowed from the desert skies of Nevada. A bald eagle circled overhead, squirrels ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time ever, the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is coming from Nevada. To mark the historic occasion, local leaders held ...

Less than a week before Halloween, in the uncertainty of a federal government shutdown, U.S. Forest Service officials and a local sawyer harvested the nation’s first Christmas tree from Nevada. The ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas—especially for the time being at the Nevada Air National Guard base in Reno. On Tuesday morning, members of the media got a first peek at Silver Belle, the ...

Even a government shutdown can't stop this year's official Capitol Christmas tree — the first ever from Nevada — from getting to Washington, D.C. While many members of the U.S. Forest Service and the ...

Southern Nevada is at risk of losing the few trees it has due to extreme heat, a loss that would only exacerbate how unevenly protective tree shade is distributed across communities in one of the ...

The Capitol Christmas tree’s journey from Nevada to Washington D.C. The Capitol Christmas Tree is the ultimate symbol of the holiday season and this year it hails from a forest in Nevada. From Nevada ...