Even a government shutdown can't stop this year's official Capitol Christmas tree — the first ever from Nevada — from getting to Washington, D.C. While many members of the U.S. Forest Service and the ...

Less than a week before Halloween, in the uncertainty of a federal government shutdown, U.S. Forest Service officials and a local sawyer harvested the nation’s first Christmas tree from Nevada. The ...

The Capitol Christmas tree’s journey from Nevada to Washington D.C. The Capitol Christmas Tree is the ultimate symbol of the holiday season and this year it hails from a forest in Nevada. From Nevada ...

It may be hard for Las Vegans to picture Nevada as a winter wonderland. But the state’s northern forests are already blanketed in snow, weighing down towering tree branches. Freshness fills the air, ...