Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
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Five-year projections, which the Bureau of Reclamation releases three times a year, are showing that snowpack may have boosted Lake Mead.
Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, cast Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and threw their support behind Pres. Joe Biden during an event in Las Vegas Wednesday.
Henderson and North Las Vegas filed a petition in March challenging a policy change that affected nonvoting school board members’ power during meetings.
District Judge Joanna Kishner ordered Meta to provide more information to the state of Nevada on its policies regarding children on its platforms.
A new internal state audit raps the Department of Corrections for overcharging prisoners on supplies and medical co-pays, high overtime costs during the pandemic, and lax oversight on how it assigns state-owned vehicles to staff.
The justice had a key role in pushing for the creation of the Court of Appeals, and in bringing a new Supreme Court building to downtown Las Vegas.
Time spent on house arrest could count as time served toward inmates’ sentences under a bill before the Legislature for the second session in a row.
A state spending panel Tuesday approved a settlement with a woman who spent more than three decades in jail before DNA evidence cleared her of a 1976 Reno murder.
Nevada will unconditionally pardon anyone with a now-outdated conviction for low-level marijuana possession, a move that could apply to more than 15,000 people dating to the mid-1980s.
Former state Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson, who pleaded guilty to misusing campaign funds, was granted early release from federal prison for medical reasons and will serve the rest of his sentence on house arrest.