A young woman died Friday after falling while taking photos at a waterfall inside a California state park in the Lake Tahoe area, rescue officials said.
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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.
State government workers would get the right to collectivately bargain, but the governor would have the final decision on wages and benefits, under an amendment to a bill heard late Wednesday.
The grants will be available to up to 20 schools to provide students and teachers with hands-on learning experiences in science and technology fields.
A bill intended to introduce reforms to the cash bail system is now being criticized by some of its early supporters because of amendments they say make it much less meaningful.
Hundreds of families and friends gathered on Memorial Day at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City to honor fallen service members.
An amendment to a bill to regulate the marijuana industry now outlaws marijuana lounges in Nevada and even prohibits local governments from allowing them.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford is intervening in a Texas federal lawsuit to protect coverage for free birth control under the Affordable Care Act.
What looked like consensus over a water-rights bill a month ago has once again devolved into discord in the Nevada Legislature, where the bill may die before a Friday deadline.
Observances of Memorial Day begin Friday and continue through Monday. Here is a list of some of the memorials and celebrations planned.
The cooperative plans calls for Nevada, Arizona and, eventually, California to voluntarily cut their river use and leave more water in Lake Mead.
The brief statement said there were “only minor injuries” and “all parties separated on their own.”
At least six park rangers who normally patrol public land near Las Vegas have been dispatched to the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months under a surge program adopted by the Trump administration last year.
The signature gun control measure of the 2019 Nevada Legislative session is being changed to remove a provision that would have allowed counties to pass their own gun control laws.
The agency announces plans to burn debris starting Tuesday in the upper Cathedral Rock Picnic Area high in Kyle Canyon, weather conditions permitting.