“I was super tired after a short while in that hot sun,” said Vicki Fallis, a senior who lives in Washoe County. Fallis says she is prepared for the heat and has experienced worse heatwaves.

Across the Desert Southwest, leaders have been woefully unprepared for heat waves that are supercharged by climate change, ...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Parts of Northern Nevada will soon be under an excessive heat watch and Washoe County is making sure residents know the resources available to them to beat the heat.

school police had one detective working part time on the HEAT unit. The detective, Eric Diamond, said that in 2020, the unit identified 130 victims of sex trafficking in Washoe County. Of those ...

“Reno is a smaller city, which means the model needs a higher resolution to accurately represent it, leading to greater ...

(KRNV) — Scientists from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) and the University of Nevada, Reno are recruiting volunteers to conduct a one-day campaign to map extreme heat across Washoe County.

In a win for environmental groups, Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, signed Assembly Bill 96 following the veto of a similar ...

Nationwide, tens of thousands of Indigenous households use firewood to help heat their homes. That’s why the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California is making sure their elders have the chopped ...