Kim Wanker has a serious case of lead foot. Trained as a professional race car driver, she thrives on the exhilaration that comes with going fast, pedal to the metal, the high-desert scenery hurtling past her car window. For the 54-year-old Wanker, speed takes her mind off her stressful work — dealing with alleged wife-beaters, child molesters and drug abusers across central Nevada.
In October, the state adapted the Nevada Corrections Department’s Casa Grande 400-bed, dormitory-style facility to accommodate prisoners whose poverty prevented their parole.
Nevadans have a reason to know Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland’s name beyond the highly charged U.S. Senate debate over whether his nomination should get a hearing, much less a confirmation vote.
A $5 million judgment awarded in a 2005 fender bender was vacated Thursday by the Nevada Supreme Court, which ordered a new trial after finding that a Clark County district judge made multiple errors during trial.
An inmate was found dead in his cell early Tuesday afternoon in Lovelock Correctional Center, the Nevada Department of Corrections said in a statement.
It’s time for Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Clive Jones to retire. He’s the most-appealed and most-reversed federal judge in Nevada, according to the legal research service Westlaw.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday picked a veteran corrections administrator from out of state to take the helm of Nevada’s beleagured prison system.
Following a five-day retrial, a former Las Vegas mortgage agent was acquitted late Monday in what federal prosecutors alleged was a $1.2 million mortgage fraud scheme.
Allegations of a corruption have plagued Boulder City since reports surfaced that the city’s police chief dropped a criminal investigation of the city’s animal control supervisor who’d been accused of needlessly killing dozens of animals for years.
Nevada officials have settled a lawsuit with voting rights advocates over making voter registration materials available to low-income and disabled clients.
The Bureau of Land Management is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for shooting and killing a wild horse in October at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center near Carson City.
The federal government does not have to explain to a Nevada man why his wife — a grandmother and farmer in Mexico — has been denied entry to the U.S. for more than 20 years under “alien smuggling” rules, a federal judge has ruled.
Sheriff’s deputies are investigating whether a 26-year-old rural northeast Nevada man arrested with a cache of weapons and explosive devices may have any ties to extremist or terrorist groups.
A man with a rifle who was shot and killed by police Thursday called 911 and acted erratically near businesses off a highway exit north of Reno, according to police.
A British man living in Las Vegas was indicted by a Nevada grand jury for multiple counts of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering on Wednesday, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
