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.
Nye Sheriff’s Deputy Joe McGill leads Sharon Wehrly with 63 percent of the votes so far. Wehrly’s two terms have been marred by several controversies revealed by the Review-Journal.
Jeff Wells, Clark County Deputy Manager, has overseen four departments where serious misconduct was exposed by the Review-Journal, including the public administrator’s office.
A U.S. House panel spent the past year examining corporate landlords for eviction abuse, but reported the Las Vegas-based company’s practices were “uniquely egregious.”
The Nye County district attorney has asked the state to investigate whether sheriff’s deputies should face criminal charges and whether the department withheld key evidence.
Hundreds of thousands of traffic tickets — even those for serious offenses — are reduced to parking violations, a Review-Journal investigation found. And with a siloed court system, bad drivers face little punishment.
Switching traffic tickets to civil infractions will result in far fewer being reduced to parking violations, some officials say.
Nevada courts operate in information silos, making it difficult for police and judges to know a person’s complete driving history. An improved system is planned for 2023.
Former longtime coroner Michael Murphy was brought in to ease growing tension amid workplace complaints against Public Administrator Robert Telles.
State and local officials across Nevada signed agreements with Northshore Clinical Labs, a COVID testing laboratory run by men with local political connections. There was only one problem: Its tests didn’t work.
Details of an internal probe and discipline of Nye County officers who did not arrest an impaired driver in 2021 before a triple-fatal crash were released this week.