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CARSON CITY — The president of the state teachers union refused Thursday to support cutting teacher salaries to help solve Nevada’s $881 million tax revenue shortfall unless the cut is approved through collective bargaining negotiations.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN — A man who says he intends to run for the seat held by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has been arrested in Lander County.
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s doctor has agreed to surrender to authorities today to face a criminal case stemming from the singer’s death, his lawyer said Thursday.
The woman convicted of first-degree murder for causing a fatal head injury to her 7-month-old foster son in 2006 was sentenced to 20 to 50 years in prison Thursday.
Daniel Miramontes never got over his younger brother’s death. “It haunted him,” mother Brenda Miramontes said. “He could not let go.”
Jordan Haar’s eye is still black and swollen a week after he was robbed and beaten while walking home from a Shadow Ridge High School basketball game.
A Southern California man has been arrested in connection with the death of a 7-month-old baby north of Lake Havasu City, Ariz. more than two years ago.
North Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Warren VanLandschoot says he shares the safety concerns of some prosecutors who work at his courthouse. He’s just not sure he can help them now.
The city of North Las Vegas couldn’t avoid the word any longer: layoffs. The financially strapped city announced Thursday it might have to cut 273 jobs, beginning as soon as March, to save the additional $33.4 million it needs to make it through fiscal year 2011.
Flamingo headliner George Wallace is alive and well and cracking jokes about his demise.
Chrissy Mazzeo’s attorney will depose Gov. Jim Gibbons today at the federal courthouse in downtown Las Vegas instead of at his own law offices.
WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday defended the decision to terminate the Yucca Mountain program, telling senators at a budget hearing the Nevada repository plan is being set aside in a search for “better solutions.”
WASHINGTON — Retired Navy Commander Kirk S. Lippold, who has an extensive background in the military including a major run-in with al-Qaida, is pondering a run for U.S. Senate in Nevada, two sources said Thursday.
More than half of all the tax money collected by the state of Nevada goes toward public education.
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Intense heat grips southern Nevada every summer. However, in recent years, the topic of worksite heat stress safety has become a focus. In 2022, Federal OSHA introduced its national emphasis program on heat stress safety. The same year, Nevada OSHA also issued its state heat stress guidelines for businesses. As summer 2024 approaches, it’s time […]
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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.
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 Joe Biden during an event in Las Vegas.
A fire that has been burning through Red Rock Canyon has been fully contained, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
