WASHINGTON — After a gray, rainy day at the U.S. Capitol, the clouds parted, revealing a sunset that one could call borrowed from the desert skies of Nevada. A bald eagle circled overhead, squirrels ...

The new series commemorating “Silver Belle,” the first Nevada tree selected to serve as the official U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, features the U.S. Forest Service Capitol Christmas Tree design.

The U.S. Forest Service has provided a Christmas tree for display at the Capitol since 1970, but no tree has ever been harvested from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Spanning 5.6 million acres ...

For the past 55 years, the U.S. Forest Service has provided a Christmas tree for the U.S. Capitol, each year from a different national forest. This year’s (2025) tree is a 53-foot Red Fir from ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Coloradans will have the opportunity to get into the holiday spirit and see the U.S. Capitol’s Christmas tree as it travels from Alaska to the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol building.

Knight-Swift driver Michael Porter delivered the 53-foot U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree to the West Lawn on Nov. 21 after a 3,700-mile tour across nine states. The cross-country haul featured 15 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fourth-grade student from Nevada got to help House Speaker Mike Johnson light the Capitol Christmas tree on December 2, local ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Capitol Market in Charleston is giving the community an opportunity to recycle Christmas trees this winter, helping both the city and the state. The annual effort aims to reduce ...

As a tiny seedling began sprouting in the forest along Mount Rose Highway west of Reno, the Vietnam War was ending under President Gerald Ford, the price of gas was 53 cents per gallon and the ...