Plenty of people might run for retiring U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s Senate seat, but not former U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., or the senator’s son, Rory Reid.
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A hang gliding instructor killed along with an 11-year-old boy in a crash near Jean on Friday did not have a permit to operate on the federal land where the aircraft went down, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
An official with the Department of Veterans Affairs who drew the ire of two Nevada members of Congress is departing as director of the Reno regional benefits office, the department confirmed Tuesday.
A Boulder City man thought he was hearing firecrackers Sunday night, but with shouts and more pops, he knew something much more serious was happening. Later, his neighbor was dead.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority is about to launch the next phase of a 12-year building binge expected to last until 2020 and cost almost $1.5 billion.
Deputies responded to the National 9 Motel in Tonpah at approximately 10:25 p.m., where a woman was said to have been stabbed in the parking lot, police said.
Nevada’s battle against the federal government’s still-smoldering plans to bury the nation’s highly radioactive waste in Yucca Mountain has finally come “down to the brass tacks” with the prospect for formal licensing hearings on the horizon and renewed debate on scientific issues, says Nevada Nuclear Projects Agency Director Robert Halstead.
A Pahrump deputy who works at a Nye County detention center was arrested after police said he pushed his wife and then pointed a gun at her Saturday during an argument.
Twelve children died from abuse or neglect in Nevada over the last two years, according to a recent legislative auditor’s review. Another nine abused children almost succumbed to their injuries during the same time period.
The main road into Desert National Wildlife Refuge is about to get a little worse on its way to getting a whole lot better.
House Republicans and Democrats came together last week to resolve a decade-old deficiency in the way doctors are reimbursed by Medicare.
“I have accomplished what I came here to do and I’m proud of what we have built here at LVGEA,” Skancke said in an interview.
The hang-gliding instructor and his 11-year-old student who died Friday afternoon in a hang gliding accident near Jean have been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as John Kelly Harrison, 55, of Hawaii, and Arys Moorhead, of Farmington, N.M.
A dozen dignitaries including three members of Nevada’s congressional delegation pitched the first shovelfuls of dirt Friday to launch construction of the state’s first Fisher House where families of wounded warriors can stay while their loved ones recover at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid announced Friday that he will not seek re-election, a decision that signals the oncoming end of an era in Nevada and scrambles the political landscape in the state and in the nation’s capital.
