WASHINGTON — After a gray, rainy day at the U.S. Capitol, the clouds parted, revealing a sunset that one could call borrowed from the desert skies of Nevada. A bald eagle circled overhead, squirrels ...

As a tiny seedling began sprouting in the forest along Mount Rose Highway west of Reno, the Vietnam War was ending under President Gerald Ford, the price of gas was 53 cents per gallon and the ...

The new series commemorating “Silver Belle,” the first Nevada tree selected to serve as the official U.S. Capitol Christmas ...

For the past 55 years, the U.S. Forest Service has provided a Christmas tree for the U.S. Capitol, each year from a different national forest. This year’s (2025) tree is a 53-foot Red Fir from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fourth-grade student from Nevada got to help House Speaker Mike Johnson light the Capitol Christmas tree on December 2, local ...

Knight-Swift driver Michael Porter delivered the 53-foot U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree to the West Lawn on Nov. 21 after a 3,700-mile tour across nine states. The cross-country haul featured 15 ...

Knight-Swift Transportation driver Michael Porter recently hauled the 2025 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada to Washington, D.C., on a multi-state tour.

The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is set to arrive in Washington, D.C. Friday morning after a 3,000-mile journey from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada. The red fir named Silver Belle is ...