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Rep. Dina Titus says she appreciates the significance of being the only Nevada lawmaker on the panel hearing closed-door testimony about President Donald Trump and his controversial telephone call with the president of Ukraine.
Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said she would take a close look at Judge Jennifer Togliatti, who was nominated for a seat on Nevada’s federal bench.
Federal officials are bracing for a possible influx of people headed to Nevada next month to storm Area 51, a classified area controlled by the Air Force.
Latino leaders continued to speak out Monday about the fear felt in Hispanic communities in the United States following the mass shooting in El Paso.
A national Hispanic veterans and civil rights group, the American GI Forum, will hold its annual convention in Las Vegas Aug. 4-7.
The bill calls for consent-based siting in new permanent and temporary sites, but not to those in Nevada, New Mexico and Texas currently under review.
Proposed temporary storage sites for nuclear waste around the country have aroused local opposition, which is putting pressure on Congress to resume building the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada.
A House bill stripped $116 million requested by President Trump to get a license to build the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, 90 miles north of Las Vegas.
A $32 million National Guard readiness center under construction in North Las Vegas has been lopped off a list of potential military construction projects being eyed by the Trump administration for funds to build a border wall.
Nevada lawmakers tried to create a new roadblock to transforming Yucca Mountain into a nuclear waste repository on Thursday by introducing bills in the House and Senate that would require the government to study alternative uses of the site.
A panel of scientists are urging a “reset” of the nation’s stalled nuclear waste management system and recommendations to manage and store the material that include using Yucca Mountain as a potential repository.
Former Sen. Harry Reid doubled down Thursday on President Donald Trump, calling him a man with “no conscience” for his insistence to build a Southwest border wall and for shutting down the government over the demand.
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The North Las Vegas Police Department provided new information about the fatal police shooting of a man tied to a four-vehicle crash.
Daily highs around 110 and morning lows near 85 are forecast by the Las Vegas office of the National Weather Service from Saturday through Thursday.
A woman who died in a fatal crash on Cheyenne Avenue near the 215 Beltway has been identified.