Andy Wiessner News Today

Many events and decisions made in 2023 will spill over into the new year. Several commissioners, and others, are up for election in 2024.

In the 19th century, the federal government, looking to boost railway construction across the relatively undeveloped West, offered railroad companies an incentive: Expand the rail lines and receive alternating sections

A billionaire landowner is proposing a land transfer with the federal government that would consolidate hundreds of thousands of Elko County acres, concerning public land users.

Assemblyman, local wildlife panel oppose plan

Winecup Gamble Ranch wants to exchange private land for public land and is proposing conservation easements that would be written into law and still allow for livestock operations

The firearm fanatics proposal received a scathing response on the letters page of The Denver Post.

Rep. Lauren Boebert is a co-sponsor on a bill (H.R. 1095) that would make AR-15 style assault rifle weapons the "National Gun" in America.

We may have sold our building, but we’re not moving after all.

The last remaining inholding of private property in the Mount Massive Wilderness is in the process of being transferred to ownership of the U.S. Forest Service.

The last remaining inholding of private land in the Mount Massive Wilderness is getting transferred into public hands, thanks to the Wilderness Land Trust. The inholding is on the east side of Independence Pass.