The Latest Breaking News from Nevada

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This year’s Burning Man Festival in Nevada has been washed out and 70,000 attendees are stuck in the mud. Summer rains have hit its desert location and, as we regularly find in the Australian Outback, when fine and dusty desert soils get wet, they are like glue. Transport becomes near…

Leon Reece, 32, was found unresponsive on the remote and weather-hit Nevada festival grounds on Friday

Rampant – and debunked – conspiracy theories have spread online about the chaotic festival in the Nevada desert

Partygoers stranded for days at the Burning Man festival by a late summer storm were allowed to start leaving Monday afternoon after muddy roads dried up enough for them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert

More than 70,000 people were trapped at Burning Man festival in Nevada as heavy rains flooded the desert

Organizers had asked attendees to shelter in place on Saturday, as torrential rains turned the desert site into a mud pit. A driving ban has since been lifted, but exiting is still a trek.

Claims of an Ebola outbreak at Burning Man were debunked by local authorities, as thousands leave the festival

Organisers of event in Nevada desert have asked people to stagger their departure after thousands were stranded over weekend. Plus, has US learned to cope with extreme heat?