Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the most powerful Nevadan ever elected to federal office and the longest-serving U.S. senator in state history, died Tuesday.
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Clark County District Judge Cristina Silva and UNLV law professor Anne Traum both answered questions at a hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Federal authorities say Josiah Kenyon, 34, of Winnemucca attacked police and broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as lawmakers were certifying the presidential election.
The Department of Energy plan would send waste to jurisdictions where state and local governments support interim storage.
Camille Touton, a Nevada resident, was appointed to the post by President Joe Biden in January.
A federal investigative report on nuclear waste disposal is recommending Congress amend a decades-old law designating Yucca Mountain as the sole location for disposal
The money will be used to develop technologies that will help reach the Biden administration’s goal of 100 percent clean energy by 2035.
Nevada’s senior senator, like her predecessor Harry Reid, has stood in the way of revisions to an 1872 law governing mining.
Two men arrested in Las Vegas on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot pleaded not guilty to charges unveiled earlier this month in a superseding indictment.
Proposed rules are designed to regulate safety for employees who work in extreme heat, but a U.S. Chamber official says that’s a moving target.
California and Texas will host the most refugees from Afghanistan, as the Biden administration works to settle about 65,000 people from the war-torn country.
Two decades after the 9/11 attacks, Nevadans who were in the nation’s capital that day reflect on their experiences.
The review will decide whether a Nevada federal judge’s ruling that a section of U.S. immigration law is unconstitutional and discriminatory against Hispanics will be appealed.
The state’s share of the money would help repair dilapidated roads and bridges, build proposed water projects, prevent wildfires and expand broadband to the entire state.
A $1.5 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill being hammered out in the Senate includes funding for Nevada needs such as preventing wildfires, expanding broadband access, water recycling and aviation improvements.
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As a dome of high pressure builds over the entire West, Thursday is projected to be the hottest day in the valley.
A man who was sent to Nevada’s death row nearly eight years ago for the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl inside her Las Vegas home has died.
A proposed change to county code could make it easier for liquor stores to open nearer to schools and churches.
Giovanni Ruiz had faced the death penalty and was set to go to trial later this month in the 2019 killing of 19-year-old Paula Davis.