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.
Environmentalists have filed an application with the federal government to list the Amargosa toad, found only in the Oasis Valley northwest of Las Vegas, as an endangered species.
The funding from a U.S. Department of Agriculture program will be used to replace a water tank and to install water lines and fire hydrants.
The reservation located on the Nevada-Idaho border is building a new school that will replace an old school tribal leaders believe caused multiple cancer deaths.
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott on Friday became the second major Republican presidential candidate to choose to run in the state’s primary election instead of the Nevada Republican Party’s caucus.
Gov. Joe Lombardo revoked Nevada’s membership from a multistate coalition focused on combating the effects of climate change last week.
After pushback, the BLM said it will require a full environmental review for Rover Metals’ lithium drilling project outside Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
Sam Brown did not make it out of the 2022 Republican Senate primary. This time around, he’s running with the backing of national Republican leaders.
The bill allocates $64.5 million for a new school, to replace a decades-old building that sits adjacent to a hydrocarbon plume.
“We’re still in session trying to figure out what we do going forward to never have a situation like this again,” Assemblyman Gregory Hafen said this week.
The Never Give Up Youth Healing Center— the subject of a recent Las Vegas Review-Journal investigation into allegations of child abuse — refused to give updates to a state oversight commission on Thursday.
Teachers told Nevada legislators a law has hindered their ability to immediately deal with disruptive and violent students.