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.
Politics and Government
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 mountains that feed the Colorado River already have seen more snow this winter than they normally would through an entire snow season.
Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford discusses his unlikely path from growing up in Las Vegas to chairing the Congressional Black Caucus, the first Nevadan to head a major group in the House of Representatives.
“You don’t have to buy it if you don’t want to drink it,” Lincoln County Commissioner Janine Woodworth said.
A Senate committee unanimously passed a proposed amendment that which would strike language allowing for slavery or involuntary servitude from the state constitution.
The bill, by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro, D-Las Vegas, would codify an executive order put in place last year by then-Gov. Steve Sisolak.
For years, Alamo residents who wanted alcohol simply drove to gas stations and small stores outside the town limits. Then last year the town’s attention turned to self-preservation.
Voters could soon be asked whether references to slavery should be removed from the Nevada Constitution after the Assembly voted to advance a joint resolution Thursday.
Nearly three-quarters of Nevada children ages 5 and younger don’t have access to a licensed child care provider, according to the report.
It would guarantee that state, tribal and local officials have a seat at the table when a permanent nuclear waste repository is proposed in their backyards.
Gov. Joe Lombardo said he is not aware of any reports of price gouging following last week’s shutdown of a pipeline that supplies gasoline to Las Vegas.