A former schoolteacher has sued the CEO of a cryptocurrency company that wants to build a smart city in the Nevada desert, accusing him and his wife of sexually harassing her.
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More people are being incarcerated in Nevada prisons, and they’re spending more time inside them, according to a review by the Crime and Justice Institute.
A Nevada inmate who has spent more than three decades behind bars for attacking a Henderson couple with an ax handle is now facing murder charges in Colorado.
Immigration officials say they arrested 21 employees suspected of being undocumented immigrants in the sweep of 98 convenience stores in the U.S. A top ICE officials calls the operation “the first of many.”
The Nevada Board of Examiners on Tuesday approved a $9.2 million contract with a private corrections company that will allow the state to send 200 inmates to an Arizona prison.
Two months of testimony in the first Bunkerville standoff trial concluded Monday with a defendant’s dramatic assertion that authorities sat in foxholes waiting to shoot protesters who arrived at the site where federal agents for days had been rounding up Cliven Bundy’s cattle.
Bureau of Land Management agents shredded sensitive documents about their roundup of Bundy family cattle in the tense hours before their April 2014 standoff with armed Bundy followers, federal prosecutors have confirmed.
A coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s failure to protect the imperiled bistate sage grouse in California and Nevada under the Endangered Species Act.
Arizona prisons Director Charles Ryan has provided additional details of unrest and rioting that injured 12 people and ransacked the state prison in northwest Arizona last week.
A Lake Havasu City, Ariz, man who delivered pot like pizza was arrested Wednesday.
A 60-year-old prisoner serving time for assault and robbery died Wednesday at the Regional Medical Facility at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections. Daniel Brumbach was committed from Washoe County on July 25, 2007.
Red Rock Academy, a state-sanctioned juvenile correctional facility in Clark County, has reportedly been closed because of compliance issues the state has declined to detail.
The financial transactions of longtime Nevada GOP activist Tony Dane’s political action committee are part of the Las Vegas police investigation into allegations of attempted extortion against Republican Assemblyman Chris Edwards, search warrant records obtained Tuesday show.
The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling finding that political fliers distributed by Citizen Outreach in 2010 were “express advocacy” requiring disclosure of who paid for them to the secretary of state.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt will host a law enforcement summit Feb. 5 as his first major initiative as Nevada’s new chief legal officer.
