High levels of contamination in Nevada were found at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs and particularly at Nellis Air Force Base, which landed on a Superfund clean-up list under the Environmental Protection Agency.
Nation and World
The death of former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid prompted an outpouring of tributes nationally late Tuesday afternoon.
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the most powerful Nevadan ever elected to federal office and the longest-serving U.S. senator in state history, died Tuesday.
Late Tuesday, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak declared a state of emergency for Northern Nevada due to treacherous road conditions.
Twenty people were injured when a Greyhound bus headed to Las Vegas veered off a highway and rolled over in central Utah, officials said Tuesday.
A 25-year-old Washoe County man is the nation’s first COVID-19 patient proven to have been reinfected by the new coronavirus, according to the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory in Reno.
Authorities previously said the victim, Jamie Feden, 33, was tied to a sign post in rural Lincoln County by John Matthew Chapman, then asphyxiated.
Larry Harvey died Saturday morning at a San Francisco hospital surrounded by family, according to Burning Man officials.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chartered a flight from Las Vegas to near his home in Montana this summer aboard a plane owned by oil-and-gas executives, internal documents show.
Clark County ranked in the top 20 U.S. counties for sexually transmitted diseases in 2016, while Nevada as a whole came in No. 2 in the nation for its rate of syphilis, according to new federal data released this week.
The National Park Service is seeking help from the public to solve the recent theft of fossilized animal tracks from Death Valley National Park.
Local DREAMer Astrid Silva said Tuesday that President Donald Trump had used his first weeks in office to take the country back to some of the darkest times in its history.
Supreme Court case that blocked Obama immigration program not expected to accelerate expulsions
An Amber Alert was issued in California Monday after 3-year-old Tanya Ruiz went missing from the area of Huron, Calif., near Fresno.
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