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The public can sway what a federal agency does when deciding if a project should move forward, thanks to the National Environmental Policy Act.
Five employees at the Southern Nevada Water Authority and sister agency Las Vegas Valley Water District cashed out more than $100,000 in sick and vacation leave pay in 2022.
Nevada laws and regulations say gaming licensees can’t restrict access to slot machines, but resorts must seek special permission for private gaming salons.
Sixty years ago President John F. Kennedy rode in official limousine — the same one he’d use later in Dallas — in a motorcade headed to the Las Vegas Convention Center on Sept. 28, 1963.
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Children must now be 5 years old by Aug. 1 to attend kindergarten in Nevada’s public schools.
About 10,000 mail-in ballots were not counted between the primary and general elections in 2022. What can be done to fix this?
A reader asked how long it takes for a dead person to be removed from the voter rolls.
Behind-the-scenes appointed government employees — like city and county managers — are loaded with responsibilities, but are also among the best paid public servants.
Since the 1980s, Southern Nevada has been banking its unused Colorado River water, storing hundreds of billions of gallons away underground and in Lake Mead.
Nevada gets less than a 2 percent cut from the Colorado River’s waters, but the state actually uses far more water than that each year.
If the Nevada Legislature had amended the state constitution to allow women to vote when it first came up in 1869, Nevada would have become the first state to legalize women’s suffrage.
Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. On the inside, you get The Strip (and now, the Sphere); on the outside, you get the vast Mojave Desert with its nostalgic attractions. In the past, people visiting Las Vegas would do so with the phrase in mind: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” […]
The park near Bermuda Road and Pebble Road honors a Metropolitan Police Department sergeant who was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2006.
Officials broke ground in Las Vegas’ Historic Westside for a College of Southern Nevada facility designed to help people get into high-demand industries.
The tranquilizer xylazine has been detected in the local illicit drug supply, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
A joint traffic safety operation by the Nevada Highway Patrol and California Highway Patrol resulted in hundreds of drivers cited over Memorial Day weekend, authorities said.