Nevada Indigenous and conservation activists continue to push the East Las Vegas national monument proposal, which would protect 33,000 acres spanning Frenchman Mountain, Rainbow Gardens and ...

In Nevada, the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument — also known as Spirit Mountain — is considered sacred by a dozen tribes. There are petroglyphs and other artifacts that show how people traveled ...

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, right center, applauds as she joins other leaders, Nevada tribal members and community members for the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument designation event at Springs ...

This story was updated at 2:30 p.m. President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the creation of two national monuments in Nevada and Texas, and directed the study of a possible marine sanctuary ...

The U.S. got two new national monuments this week in Nevada and Texas. One is a sacred place to several tribes. The other also includes ancient tribal lands and was once a military training ground.

Biden establishes vast new national monument near Nevada-California border, honoring tribes Spirit Mountain area, known as Avi Kwa Ame, receives protections, while process starts to create new ...

In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt established the country’s first national monument, Devils Tower in Wyoming. Last month, the Biden administration welcomed two new members to the prestigious ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden plans next week to designate nearly a half-million acres of the Spirit Mountain area in southern Nevada as a national monument, according to two people familiar with ...

Last year — thanks to President Joe Biden’s use of a 118-year-old law — Avi Kwa Ame joined the ranks of Tule Springs, Gold Butte, and Basin and Range as a national monument in Nevada.

The two national monuments will conserve 514,000 acres (208,008 hectares) of public land. They include Avi Kwa Ame, the Mojave name for Spirit Mountain, in southern Nevada.