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This photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity taken in June 2019, in the Silver Peak Range of western Nevada about halfway between Reno and Las Vegas shows Tiehm's buckwheat growing in the high desert where a lithium mine is planned. Five days after the Energy Department announced a $700 million conditional loan to an Australian mining company pursuing a contentious lithium project in Nevada, U.S. land managers cited it for trespassing within the habitat of an endangered flower. (Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity via AP, File)

Nevada lithium mine wins final approval despite potential harm to endangered wildflower

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

A mail carrier loads a mail truck with mail on Friday, March 1, 2024, in Lake Tahoe, Calif. A U.S. Postal Service plan to downsize a regional mail hub in Reno and move package and letter processing to Sacramento, California, is raising fears about service delays and mail-in ballot handling from Nevada elected representatives. (AP Photo/Andy Barron, File)

U.S. Postal Service plan to downsize mail hub in Nevada slammed after Sierra blizzard

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Alex Hereford plays with his friend's dog Dingo on top of a snow pile in downtown Truckee, Calif., on Saturday, March 2, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group via AP)

More snow is on the way without much of a break for the blizzard-hit Sierra Nevada

By Brooke Hess and Ken Ritter - Associated Press

A lone camper truck moves north bound on the I-80 at the Donner Pass Exit on Friday, March 1, 2024, in Truckee, Calif. The most powerful Pacific storm of the season is forecast to bring up to 10 feet of snow into the Sierra Nevada by the weekend. (AP Photo/Andy Barron)

Powerful storm in California and Nevada shuts interstate and dumps snow on mountains

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

Interim Nye County Clerk Mark Kampf works in an office where early votes are being counted, Oct. 26, 2022, in Pahrump, Nev. Kampf, top elections official in the rural Nevada county roiled by false claims of widespread election fraud that led to a partial hand-count in the 2022 midterms, is resigning, a county spokesperson confirmed Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Nevada county election official in charge of controversial 2022 hand-count plan resigns

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

Interim Nye County Clerk Mark Kampf works in an office where early votes are being counted, Oct. 26, 2022, in Pahrump, Nev. Kampf, top elections official in the rural Nevada county roiled by false claims of widespread election fraud that led to a partial hand-count in the 2022 midterms, is resigning, a county spokesperson confirmed Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Nevada county election official in charge of controversial 2022 hand-count plan resigns

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

FILE - Voters cast their ballots in the Nevada primary election in Reno, Nev., June 14, 2022. The Nevada presidential primary will take place Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, but the Nevada Republican Party has decided to hold caucuses on Thursday, Feb. 8. The dueling caucuses and primaries are creating confusion among voters but there is little uncertainty about the expected results. Former President Donald Trump is expected to prevail and win all the state's delegates in the caucuses, while President Biden is not expected to face any danger in losing the primary. (AP Photo/Tom R. Smedes, File)

How Nevada’s split primaries and caucuses have undercut the influence of the state’s Republicans

By Michelle L. Price, Jonathan J. Cooper and Gabe Stern - Associated Press

Gary McKinney, a spokesman for People of Red Mountain and a member of the nearby Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribe, walks near Sentinel Rock on April 25, 2023, outside of Orovada, Nev. The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony is abandoning its 3-year lawsuit aimed at blocking a lithium mine currently under construction at Thacker Pass in northwest Nevada. Tribal leaders say the U.S. Interior Department refuses to accept their arguments that the mine's on a sacred site where more than two dozen Paiute and Shoshone ancestors were massacred in 1865. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Nevada tribe says coalitions, not lawsuits, will protect sacred sites as U.S. advances energy agenda

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, in Reno, Nev. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Trump says Nevada fake electors treated ‘unfairly’ during rally in Reno

By Jonathan J. Cooper and Gabe Stern - Associated Press

Nevada basketball coach Steve Alford, center, talks to wolf pack backers on the floor of the grand Sierra resort hotel casino ahead of a news conference Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023 in Reno, Nev. The University of Nevada’s basketball team could have a new off-campus home by 2026 under an ambitious 10-year expansion plan that Reno’s largest hotel-casino announced Wednesday. The nearly $1 billion private capital investment will be the biggest in the city's history, according to officials of the Grand Sierra Resort. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Reno casino expansion plan includes new arena that could be University of Nevada basketball home

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

With cameras capturing every word, the pressure is on for the Georgia judge over Trump’s indictment

By Sudhin Thanawala - Associated Press

A crowd gathers around debris after a P-51 Mustang airplane crashed at the Reno Air show, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, in Reno Nev., killing former Hollywood stunt pilot Jimmy Leeward and 10 people on the ground. It was one of the deadliest air show disasters in U.S. history. Another 70 people were seriously injured. (Tim O'Brien/The Union via AP, File)

Fatal collision that killed 2 pilots brings tragic end to Reno air show, confounds experts

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels throw a pass against Nevada during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023, in Reno Nev. (AP Photo/Andy Barron)

Neal runs for 3 TDs, Hinshaw Jr. adds runs for another to help Kansas beat Nevada 31-24

By Dan Hinxman - Associated Press

Vehicles line up to leave the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert, Nev., Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. The traffic jam leaving the festival eased up considerably Tuesday as the exodus from the mud-caked Nevada desert entered a second day following massive rain that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded there for days. (Monique Sady via AP)

Burning Man is ending, but the cleanup from heavy flooding is far from over

By Ed Komenda, Gabe Stern and Scott Sonner - Associated Press

Huge mining trucks costing $1.1 million each are set to begin moving ore containing lithium to a processing plant at a controversial mine in northern Nevada. (Photo by Bill Gertz/The Washington Times)

A new era: Construction of strategic lithium processing plant kicks off

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Arizona Diamondbacks center fielder Alek Thomas (5) can't make the catch on a double hit by San Diego Padres' Jake Cronenworth as he nearly collides with left fielder Tommy Pham during the fifth inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Gallen beats the Padres again, Pham and Moreno homer in the Diamondbacks’ 3-1 victory

By Bernie Wilson - Associated Press

In this image provided by the Nevada Department of Wildlife, a Dixie Valley toad sits atop grass in Dixie Valley, Nev., on April 6, 2009. Interior Department officials have decided to “revisit” the 2021 environmental review that cleared the way for construction of a geothermal power plant in Nevada where an endangered toad lives, a victory for environmentalists and tribal leaders suing to block the project. (Matt Maples/Nevada Department of Wildlife via AP, File)

U.S. to reopen review of Nevada geothermal plant near endangered toad while legal battle is on hold

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

A billboard displays "Protect Thacker Pass" near the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation on April 25, 2023, near McDermitt, Nev. Environmentalists, ranchers and others have fought for years against lithium mining ventures in Nevada. Yet opposition to mining one particular desert tract for the silvery-white metal used in electric car batteries is coming from unusual quarters: space. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Court to hear appeal over Biden-backed Nevada lithium mine opposed by tribes, environmentalists

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

FILE - This photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity shows seven cows seen within subpopulation 1 of Tiehm's buckwheat at Rhyolite Ridge in the Silver Peak Range of Esmeralda County, Nev., on Jan. 3, 2023. The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday, Jan. 13, announced a conditional loan of $700 million to an Australian mining company to pursue a proposed lithium project in Nevada, as the U.S. seeks domestic supplies for a key component in electric vehicle batteries. (Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity via AP)

Nevada lithium mine gets $700M conditional loan from Energy

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

Jeremy Renner poses for photographers upon arrival at the UK Fan Screening of the film "Hawkeye," in London, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. Renner is being treated for serious injuries that happened while he was plowing snow. The actor's representative said Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, that Renner is in critical condition although he is stable. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)

Sheriff: No foul play in ‘Avengers’ star snow tractor injury

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press