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Crash kills three on U.S. Highway 95 just south of Tonopah

The head-on crash happened just after 2:15 p.m., according to Nevada Highway Patrol. All six people involved in the crash were wearing seat belts. Impairment is not suspected.

President Obama declares Gold Butte a national monument

President Barack Obama stepped into a swirling land-use controversy in Nevada on Wednesday and declared a swath of desert known as Gold Butte a National Monument.

Nevada officials investigate cyberattack on marijuana program database

Nevada officials are investigating a cyberattack on the state’s medical marijuana program database after the personal information of thousands of people was leaked online Wednesday, the state confirmed in a news release.

Remote Nevada quakes, felt in Las Vegas, could have been a disaster

A trio of significant earthquakes that struck a remote part of western Nevada early Wednesday were big enough to cause as much as $1 billion in damage if they had been centered beneath a big city, a leading expert said Wednesday.

Nevada’s new gun background check law ends before it begins

A new law requiring background checks for private party gun sales in Nevada is unenforceable because it specifically prohibits the state from running those checks through its databases, the attorney general’s office said in an opinion issued Wednesday.