A humble Basque sheep rancher from Dillon Beach is now a surprising icon for the modern age. A year ago, a Los Angeles casting agent found Dio Choperena drinking a bottle of Coors at the William Tell ...

ELKO, Nev. — The old Basco sat at the end of the bar, drinking his usual--a powerful punch of picon liquor, club soda, grenadine and brandy. When he spoke, which wasn’t much, it was the language of ...

CARSON-ICEBERG WILDERNESS – The Paiute cutthroat trout is more than a fish to Michael Cronin. It’s a connection to his late father, Leo Cronin, a Bay Area conservationist who in the 1980s and ‘90s ...

One of the many jewels of the University of Nevada, Reno is its Center for Basque Studies, one of the world’s largest collections of Basque-related materials, over 55,000 volumes, itself a reflection ...