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The flawed installation of fences intended to protect the Mojave Desert Tortoise from highway traffic cost taxpayers more than $700,000 to correct, and faulty culvert drainage killed one of the protected animals, a Las Vegas Review-Journal investigation found.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Trump administration’s lawsuit challenging three California laws protecting undocumented immigrants.
An unlikely pair of elected officials teamed up Monday to make a public call to funnel more marijuana tax monies to education in Nevada.
Conservation activists are urging the Bureau of Land Management to address issues with a historic dam that is trapping mud and slowly burying petroglyphs and other cultural resources in the Arrow Canyon Wilderness.
Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer’s super PAC NextGen America says it plans to focus on the competitive races for governor and Congressional Districts 3 and 4, but will be specifically focused on ousting Nevada’s incumbent Republican Sen. Dean Heller.
Civil rights attorneys say a Reno high school student’s First Amendment rights were violated when he was suspended after calling a Northern Nevada Congressman’s office.
Nevadans with past misdemeanor pot convictions can have their records sealed away, but the Clark County district attorney isn’t ready to wave a magic wand to make it happen.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife’s new reality show is sort of like “The Real Housewives of Reno,” only with feathers.
Swedish developer’s proposal to build as many as 220 wind turbines across 22 miles along the Nevada-California border near Searchlight comes less than a year after plans were dropped for a controversial wind farm in the same area. .
Attorney General Adam Laxalt, a Republican, and Clark County Commission Vice Chair Chris Giunchigliani, a Democrat, filed candidacy paperwork Tuesday morning with the Nevada secretary of state’s office in Las Vegas.
After much speculation, North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Tuesday that he will notrunning for Congress.
U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian’s real estate firm owes $16 million, newly released court documents show, raising questions about the financial viability of the outspoken Republican who’s challenging U.S. Sen. Dean Heller.
More than 32,000 people submitted comments in opposition to the Air Force’s plan to expand its training range north of Las Vegas at the expense of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
A perennial sheriff candidate hurled insults as the primary election for the county’s top cop job became official Thursday.
Overall opioid-related overdose deaths have decreased slightly in Nevada since 2010, but data presented Thursday show that heroin and synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, are responsible for a sharply higher share of the deaths.
