The Department of Interior announced a $700 million investment in water conservation projects in the Lower Colorado River Basin.
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On lithium mining, lawmakers heard from industry advocates and environmentalists about the burgeoning future of the industry.
County fair horse races in White Pine and Elko counties are among rural Nevada’s most important tourism events.
As part of the Oakland Athletics’ nonrelocation agreement, the team could play seven home games per season away from Las Vegas and its planned Strip ballpark.
The Nye County Commission is responding to concerns about mining claims being established around Amargosa Valley and how they could affect groundwater.
U.S. Attorney Jason Frierson became the first African-American man to serve as Nevada’s top federal law enforcement officer in April 2022.
Two recent lawsuits filed against the Nevada Department of Corrections allege a pattern of corrections officers allowing prisoners to be attacked by incarcerated gang members at High Desert State Prison.
In overturning a District Court ruling, justices held that shield law protections did not die with Jeff German when he was murdered in 2022.
A group of incarcerated firefighters from a women’s prison facility in Nevada were told to keep working while their boots and socks melted according to a lawsuit filed this week by the ACLU of Nevada.
Gov. Joe Lombardo appointed two judges on Thursday to fill vacancies in Family Court.
The Nevada Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday over a rule change in Clark County’s Family Court that makes it easier to close hearings to the public.
The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a ban preventing insurers from using credit score declines against those who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Judge James Wilson said that the board did not give the proper amount of notice to victims’ families prior to the meeting, although he allowed that the board did have the power to commute death sentences.
Former Nevada Department of Corrections Director Charles Daniels gave a statement to news media on Friday morning but refused to take questions.
Former university regent James Dean Leavitt is challenging appointed Judge Maria Gall for the District Court Department 9 seat.