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Eight backcountry skiers perish in California avalanche, ninth presumed dead

The initial number of 16 people affected by the avalanche was also updated, with Moon explaining that one person who was initially declared missing wasn't on the mountain.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN, REUTERS
Six skiers were rescued, eight lost their lives, and one is missing after an avalance in the Castle Peak area of Truckee, California, February 17, 2026.
Inside Sea Lion Caves, Oregon, February 10, 2026.

Researchers discover world’s oldest sewn hide, dated to Ice Age, in Oregon caves - study

Through carbon dating, researchers have ruled that the artifacts are between approximately 11,700 and 12,900 years old, a time when Ice Age temperatures had returned after a brief warm period.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Senator Jacky Rosen is interviewed in Dry Lake Valley, Nevada, June 28, 2021.

Man who made antisemitic threats against Sen. Jacky Rosen sentenced to almost 4 years in prison

Miller’s lawyer, Jess Marchese, told the Associated Press that Miller struggles with addiction and was high on methamphetamine at the time of the crimes.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
Elements and renderings of the "Nova Heaven" Burning Man installation.

This year’s Burning Man to feature massive tribute to the Nova festival victims and their spirit

Some of the artists participating in the build — Burning Man famously requires participants to pack in and remove all elements of their installations — have ties to the Israeli trance scene.

|ByJACOB GURVIS/JTA

Israeli artist Orit Oged admits involvement in drug-related double murder

35-year-old Orit Oged and her 36-year-old husband Corey Spurlock are also accused of distributing about 1,000 kilograms of marijuana.

AUGUST 2, 2024ByYOAV ETIEL
Orit Oged

Rally against antisemitism at UNLV draws hundreds

Levaton was joined by several hundred other people on UNLV’s campus on Monday for a rally against antisemitism that was organized by local Jewish and Israel advocacy groups.

MAY 7, 2024ByBRETT CLARKSON/TNS
University of Las Vegas Student Union.

UNLV police end Israeli professor's black holes lecture after protest

Prof. Peer said that he was 15 minutes into his guest lecture when a group of protesters entered the room with banners and flags.

FEBRUARY 28, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Protesters interrupt Bar Ilan University physics department Professor Asaf Peer's guest lecture at University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Haley loses Republican Nevada primary to 'none of these candidates'

Haley, the last remaining rival to frontrunner Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, was the only major Republican candidate contesting the party's Nevada primary on Tuesday.

FEBRUARY 7, 2024ByREUTERS
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks while attending a campaign event at Indian Land High School's auditorium in Lancaster, South Carolina, U.S. February 2, 202

Largest ever lithium reserves discovered near Nevada, US - study

Conservationists and local tribal groups, whose land the mining takes place on, objected to the project.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Men work as Zimbabwe's re-elected President Emmerson Mnangagwa commissions a Chinese owned Sabi Star lithium processing plant in Buhera, Zimbabwe August 31, 2023.

One death reported at Burning Man, thousands stranded in mud and rain

Access to and from Black Rock City, the event site, was closed "for the remainder of the event," organizers said in a statement on social media.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023ByREUTERS
Dub Kitty and Ben Joos, of Idaho and Nevada, walk through the mud at Burning Man after a night of dancing with friends in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, after a rainstorm turned the site into mud September 2, 2023.