Nevada Highway Patrol troopers will ditch their blue uniforms Tuesday as the agency completes a two-year transition to gray uniforms that began Jan. 1, 2017.
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Nevada’s Burning Man counter-culture festival has inspired spin-off events around the world that are now being studied by Swiss government anthropologists and sociologists.
Among the many Nevada newsmakers who died in 2018 were a former Nevada governor and U.S. senator, a celebrity columnist and TV host known for bidding his viewers “Champagne wishes and caviar dreams” at the end of his show and the namesake of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
Drivers should expect bumper-to-bumper traffic Saturday afternoon near the state line when trying to enter or leave California.
If your New Year’s plans include alcohol, the Nevada Highway Patrol wants to remind motorists there are several ways to get home safely and avoid costly DUI-related costs and jail time.
Las Vegas defense attorney Alexis Plunkett threatened to have her former boyfriend killed behind bars, prosecutors said in court papers filed Friday urging a judge to revoke her bail.
The Vegas Golden Knights’ improbable run to the Stanley Cup Final and the team’s impact on the community was the top local story in 2018, but it was hardly the only big news of the year.
Cash payments. Drinks and airfare. Government contracts. All ingredients of a good scandal. But in the case of Nevada’s State Public Charter School Authority, there’s more behind allegations of misconduct than meets the eye.
He was Steven John Howard of Pahrump, according to the agency. He was pronounced dead at Desert View Hospital in Pahrump.
Federal officials have informed organizers of the Burning Man counter-culture festival in Nevada that they left too much trash behind after the 2018 event.
An adult living in Southern Nevada imported the area’s first measles case since 2015, the Southern Nevada Health District said in an emailed statement Thursday.
Reno police say firefighters had to extricate three 16-year-olds trapped in a vehicle after a rollover crash.
Callisha Lakota, 62, died of unknown causes about 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center’s medical facility in Carson City.
The usual happenings in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area carried on Saturday despite a partial government shutdown now expected to drag into Christmas.
The two amateur prospectors spied what they had come looking for— an abandoned mine shaft possibly hiding treasure within. But it wasn’t gold or silver the two sought in a rural Nevada forest. It was blue jeans from the long-ago days of the Comstock Lode.
