A look at the attempt to establish Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a site for a nuclear waste repository. Yucca Mountain is located approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Congress passes Nuclear ...

The Tiny Pony Tavern sits amid a stretch of California’s high desert known for its abundant Joshua trees, gorgeous surrounding mountains and blazingly brilliant sunsets. But the menus at the bar, ...

But it doesn’t mean the Nevada site is safe — or even back on the docket. Did the authors of the license application, for instance, adequately consider the question “what can happen?” to the waste, ...

Much of the world of living things seems split into two groups: the generalists and the specialists. Generalists – honeybees, weeds, humans – can exploit a variety of habitats. Specialists zero in on ...

As with much policy-setting in the Trump administration, a single tweet from the president on February 6 appeared to reverse a previous stance. The message about Yucca Mountain, the nation’s proposed ...

President Trump has made a U-turn on funding the long-delayed and long-debated Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada — but it’s unclear what his decision means for moving the 3.55 million ...

YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) - A 55-year-old woman in an electric wheelchair was struck and killed by a vehicle in a hit-and-run crash last week in Yucca Valley. The crash was first reported on Nov. 6 ...