Culture Reporter 

Sam Mondros

‘Incredibly unusual’: Burning Man ticket sales dry up after sloppy year

Culture

Burning Man releases 3,000 last-minute tickets amid slow-to-recover sales after last year’s mudfest.

Burning Man survived a muddy quagmire in 2023 and passed clean-up test. What’s in store for 2024?

The event is tentatively permitted for the same 80,000 attendance cap next year. 

Matthew Kupfer

Insurance crisis: Bay Area insurance company that left California leaves Arizona, Nevada

News

Business

As Bay Area-based CSE pulls out of California, it will also drop policyholders in neighboring states.

The Standard Staff

Burning Man 2023: Road reopens to let campers out, but waits stretch 8 hours

Just how many people would leave on Labor Day—as a practical matter, or a matter of choice—remained unclear.

Burning Man 2023: Main event burn postponed again as CEO says ‘no cause for panic’

The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said a death happened during the ‘during this rain event.’ It was unclear when attendees would be allowed to drive out.