A 940-lot Washoe Valley housing project will move forward after the Washoe County Commission voted 3-2 Tuesday, March 10. Commissioners Mike Clark and Jeanne Herman voted against the project after a ...

Chimpanzees have a reputation for being aggressive, while bonobos are often seen as their peaceful counterparts. This contrast has frequently been used to explain different sides of human nature.

Officially founded in 1998, Central Washington University’s primatology programs have received international acclaim, with alumni represented at all levels of the field across the world. As such, ...

Chimpanzees share more than 98% of human DNA, and decades of field research across Africa show their societies can be intensely violent. Long-term studies at sites like Gombe and Kibale document ...

In an attempt to understand our own fascination with the shiny minerals, researchers gave some to chimps. A chimp named Toti attentively observes a quartz crystal at a rehabilitation facility in Spain ...

KETIHVILLE, La. (WAFB) - If your kids have outgrown the rhythmic rhyming of Dr. Seuss, there are some chimpanzees living in northwest Louisiana that could enjoy them. Chimp Haven, a chimpanzee habitat ...

A landmark 2025 census has confirmed 426 chimpanzees thriving in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The findings mark a major conservation milestone, highlighting the park’s vital role as a ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...

A snow day called at 5 a.m. left some Washoe County School District families scrambling and asking why the decision wasn’t made the night before. Parents criticized the timing on social media, saying ...

SIERRA COUNTY, Calif. – In what is the largest land return in the Sierra Nevada and third largest in California, the Washoe Tribe now owns 10,274 acres northeast of Lake Tahoe, announcing the ...

It’s been more than a century since the California gold rush and subsequent conflicts with settlers displaced the Washoe people from their homelands between the Great Basin and Central Valley. Some of ...

On Wednesday, the Waší·šiw Land Trust completed the purchase of a 10,274-acre property in the Washoe tribal homelands northeast of Lake Tahoe and roughly 20 miles north of Reno. “Wá∙šiw people were ...