Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto introduced a bill to revoke the law making Yucca Mountain, located 90 miles from Las Vegas, a nuclear waste repository.
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ChatGPT wrote a poem about Nevada’s politics and was asked to include important landmarks. Here’s what it gave.
A judge will determine whether to ban end-to-end encryption for people under 18. The state says the feature helps child predators. Meta says it protects privacy.
Attorneys general across the country, including Nevada’s Aaron Ford, sued Google alleging anticompetitive practices in connection with the Google Play Store.
Gov. Joe Lombardo said in the statement the Tech Hub at UNR and its partnerships will be an essential part in strengthening Nevada’s economy.
This “variant of interest” has a unique mutation that may make it resistant to the protection offered by vaccine and past infection.
The loss of the tortoises illustrates the challenges of bringing alternative energy sources to the Mojave Desert while still protecting its biodiversity.
Pahrump poolfish, only found in Nevada, have been successfully reintroduced to the Desert National Wildlife Refuge after months of removing predatory species.
Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid helped get the money to research unidentified aerial phenomenon, the subject of a highly-anticipated report.
If you’ve got enough money, acres upon acres of undeveloped land and an “innovative technology,” you soon could form a new local government in Nevada.
The Department of Energy on Thursday announced a deal to recover $200 million in taxpayer funds from Tonopah Solar Energy, a Nevada solar project that never showed a profit.
Perchlorates, produced in Henderson from the 1950s to the 1990s, are best remembered for touching off a massive explosion at the PEPCON plant manufacturing in 1988.
Mathematical models aim to chart the path of the new coronavirus in the U.S. and Nevada, but the outcomes can vary wildly depending on basic assumptions about the disease.
The two contracts, which total more than $86 million, were approved by the Board of Examiners, comprised of Gov. Steve Sisolak, Attorney General Aaron Ford and Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske.
In a made-for-TV visit to the proposed burial site for the nation’s nuclear waste in Nye County, Nevada’s senior senator vows to block efforts to restart licensing process.