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Nevada’s Jacky Rosen targets Yucca Mountain, health care

At a roundtable meeting with reporters on Friday, Rosen discussed her plans as the Silver State’s next senator and the challenges of working in a divided Congress.

BLM removes Nevada sage grouse habitat from oil, gas lease auction

Environmentalists are celebrating a court ruling that removed more than a million acres of federal land in Western states from an upcoming oil and gas auction in greater sage grouse habitat, including about 330,000 acres in Nevada.

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Michelle Obama, in Las Vegas, stresses importance of voting

People packed the Chaparral High School gymnasium Sunday evening to hear Michelle Obama, celebrities and local leaders speak on the importance of registering to vote. They called on the crowd to ensure they were registered — and to ensure their friends, family and colleagues were registered — with Election Day around the corner.

Nevada team flies glider to world record in South America

An experimental sailplane built by the Minden-based Perlan Project team soared to a new unofficial world altitude record for engineless flight on Sunday, then broke that record by climbing to an altitude of 63,776 feet two days later.

Strong winds create traffic problems for Burning Man visitors

The Nevada Highway Patrol is reporting that strong winds are creating traffic problems for visitors to the Burning Man festival in Northern Nevada. “Expect intermittent closures at the entrance to the event,” the NHP said via Twitter.

It’s been a cruel summer for Colorado River amid big drought

The drought-stressed Colorado River carried even less water than expected this summer, increasing the odds of a shortage in the vital river system in 2020, federal water managers said Friday.

 
Arizona man, 91, still relishes role as Angel of Route 66

Most mornings, the 91-year-old Mayor of the Mother Road rides his bicycle the few short blocks to his office, a bustling souvenir shop along old U.S. Route 66, the venerable long-sidelined highway that has defined his life.