Long before Southern Nevada built its winding highways, desert tortoises roamed freely without consequence. For these federally protected animals, crossing the street without a dedicated path ...

meaning the unofficial race is still on for which tortoise will wake up first. Who are Nevada’s tort-fluencers? Carson, a desert tortoise, checks out his new digs at the Governor's Mansion in ...

Groundhog Day marks the start of Mojave Max watch. The desert tortoise mascot is Clark County's official prognosticator, but ...

the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find them new places to live, sometimes the tortoises don’t want to leave. “When you take them and move them 10 miles away ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of ...

It’s Groundhog Day, but whether or not a rodent in Pennsylvania sees his shadow means nothing to us here in Las Vegas.

Nevada residents are rallying against a solar ... Two endangered species, the desert tortoise and southwestern willow flycatcher, also live in the area — but a report from state officials ...

At least he's more accurate than Mojave Max, a desert tortoise at the Springs Preserve in Nevada who took the last spot with 25% accuracy. The ranking might not be fair to Mojave Max, though.

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises ... federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed ...