Nevada lawmakers expressed frustration Thursday over the slow pace of developing a statewide database to track student achievement, an effort that’s been decades in the making and has cost millions of dollars.
A vehicle crashed into an office building near Warm Springs and Spencer roads around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, according to Las Vegas police.
A Mohave County corrections officer who pleaded guilty to sexually coercing a female inmate was indicted in a similar case involving another female inmate.
Without any opposition Thursday, the Assembly quickly approved a bill designed to provide a fairer distribution of state taxes to local governments.
District Court Judge Susan Scann looked at the color copy of a real estate listing Thursday morning and needed only a few seconds to advise lawyers for embattled Texas developer Chris Milam to remove the ad offering 477 acres in Henderson for sale.
Assemblyman Paul Aizley of Las Vegas asked members of the Assembly Taxation Committee Thursday to approve his bill to end the requirement that the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Review-Journal publish their counties’ tax rolls — a list of thousands of names of property owners that show the assessed values of their holdings.
A Las Vegas mail carrier is on leave without pay while the Office of Inspector General investigates a case of “misplaced” mail.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority board, which now meets each month, voted unanimously Thursday to start meeting every other month, except for the occasional budget hearing or special session.
Kazuo Okada, co-founder and one-time largest shareholder in Wynn Resorts Ltd., resigned Thursday from the gaming company’s board of directors, just one day before a shareholder vote likely would have removed him.
A state senator is trying for the second session in a row to repeal a component of the state minimum wage law in the Nevada Constitution.
A man was found dead in a vehicle on Interstate 15 near U.S. Highway 93 early Thursday morning, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Nevada became the first state in the nation Thursday to authorize interactive gaming when Gov. Brian Sandoval signed Assembly Bill 114 into law in a ceremony in the Old Assembly Chambers in the Capitol.
Aspiring rapper Kenny Cherry was shot dead Thursday morning while driving a Maserati after an altercation outside a posh Strip hotel. He then crashed the car into a taxicab, causing a fiery explosion on the Strip that killed two.
After a nearly 15-hour closure, the Strip reopened Thursday night after an early morning shooting and crash that left three people dead, Las Vegas police said.
Siegel Group Nevada has acquired three apartment buildings totaling 247 units on east Fremont Street for $3.85 million, or about $15,600 per unit, real estate investor Stephen Siegel said Thursday.
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