Each spring, cottony blobs appear in the branches of desert almond bushes across the Mojave. The silken colonies are spun by Western tent caterpillars. The caterpillars eat newly sprouted leaves and grow to about two inches in length. After a month or two, they will leave their tents to spin cocoons. A few weeks later, they will emerge as nondescript brown moths.
The president leaves Nevadans with a final reminder of his commitment to increasing energy costs.
Check out the scores and top performances from Tuesday’s high school basketball and flag football action.
The Golden Knights built a two-goal lead in the first period and again early in the third before pulling out a road win over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday.
The UNLV men’s basketball team trailed by 19 points at halftime in a loss at Boise State on Tuesday, the Rebels’ first defeat in Mountain West play this season.
SLAM Academy, the three-time defending Class 5A state champion, defeated Bishop Gorman in a dual meet Tuesday. Here are photos from the matches.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Eighty years ago, Germany’s former conquerors rejected wrecking the defeated nation as too harsh. Now Germany is pastoralizing, disarming, deindustrializing — and destroying — itself.