As Nevada prepares to celebrate its 160th birthday next week — there's a lot of random facts you might not be aware of. Nevada became the 36th state on Oct. 31, 1864. It was the second of two ...

In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...

Now known as Prometheus, the tree was found to be nearly 5,000 years old. That means Prometheus came into existence around the time humans were exiting the Stone Age and beginning to work with bronze.