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A person was found unresponsive in Las Vegas on Saturday and, while authorities have not confirmed their cause of death, it is believed the victim drowned after being swept away by flood waters

Thousands of partygoers were still stranded in the desert after a late-summer storm turned a week-long counterculture fest into a mud pit

Event organizers said this morning that it was still too wet for a safe mass departure of RVs and other vehicles but hoped traffic could begin flowing later in the day.

Here's the latest on tens of thousands of Burning Man attendees leaving the desert after being stranded.

Partygoers stranded at a counterculture festival by a late summer storm hoped muddy roads would reopen Monday and allow them to begin their exodus from the...

Thousands of revellers attending the annual Burning Man festival were stranded in mud, and asked that they shelter in place and conserve food and water

Burning Man organizers said the main road leading out of the festival was still too muddy for traffic.

Partygoers stranded at a counterculture festival by a late summer storm hoped muddy roads would reopen Monday and allow them to begin their exodus from the...

Roads into and out of the Burning Man music and culture festival in northern Nevada reopened Monday after heavy rainfall and mud stranded tens of thousands of attendees over the weekend.

David Crane/picture alliance via Getty Images(PERSHING COUNTY, Nev.) -- A death has been confirmed at Burning Man after thousands of attendees were left mired in mud from torrential rains and were being advised to conserve food and water as all roads in and out of the desert arts and "self-reliance" festival remained shut off Sunday. The sprawling event is held each year in whats known as Black Rock City, in the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada. Following what authorities descr...