Nevada trails most states on national student vocabulary test

Vocabulary isn’t a strong suit for Nevada students, whose average scores on a redesigned test beat only a handful of other states, according to the Nation’s Report Card released this week by the U.S. Department of Education.

I-15 segment to be shut down overnight Saturday

Three southbound lanes of Interstate 15, from Charleston Boulevard to Spring Mountain Road, will be closed Saturday night and early Sunday to remove graffiti from an overhead sign, the Nevada Department of Transportation announced Thursday.

Plan to keep Nevada Cancer Institute going suffers setback

The plan to keep the Nevada Cancer Institute going in some form collapsed on Thursday because of restrictions written nearly a decade ago on how its campus could be used.

Navy vet, Japanese-American remember Pearl Harbor

A Japanese-American girl from Oahu and a seaman from Lemon Grove, Calif., have something in common that few can claim today: The two Las Vegas residents survived the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941.

Sandoval plans to release contested budget information next week

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, taking heat for his refusal to release all agency budget requests, will release agency funding “wish lists” sometime next week, his chief of staff said Thursday.

High court rejects former governor son’s delay request

The Nevada Supreme Court unanimously rejected a request by Jeff Guinn, son of former Gov. Kenny Guinn, to delay a required deposition in a civil case until the FBI finishes its criminal investigation into whether he defrauded real estate clients.

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