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.
Nevada’s two leading Democratic governor candidates turned up the heat during a debate Monday, jabbing each other on campaign finance, gun control and the minimum wage.
In a complaint filed with the Federal Elections Commission, Nevada’s Democratic Party accuses Republican Dean Heller of failing to refund illegal 2012 contributions from employees of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
The funding is an increase over the $2.8 million the city received last year through the Department of Homeland Security’s Urban Areas Security Initiative program, which helps urban areas build infrastructure and train personnel.
The listing of the minerals is part of a Trump administration effort to reduce foreign dependence on resources needed for consumer and military goods and streamline the application process to expedite domestic mining and production.
Jennifer Doody resigned as the public works director in North Las Vegas to take a similar job in her hometown, city officials said Monday.
Law enforcement and public safety will dominate most of Clark County’s $1.57 billion budget next fiscal year, after County Commission approved funding on Monday.
The Las Vegas City Council unanimously gave the green light Monday to a $1.5 billion budget that adds 64 positions to the city workforce, prioritizes programs for the homeless population and bumps up the Metropolitan Police Department’s funding.
The Trump administration on Monday demanded that Iran make wholesale changes in its military and regional policies or face “the strongest sanctions in history.”
President Donald Trump praised new CIA Director Gina Haspel at her swearing-in ceremony Monday, saying there was “no one in this country better qualified” for the job.
Richard N. Goodwin, an aide, speechwriter and liberal force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson who helped craft such historic addresses as Robert Kennedy’s “ripples of hope” and LBJ’s speeches on civil rights and “The Great Society,” died Sunday evening. He was 86.