A fire at a low-level radioactive waste dump in Nye County that shut down a 140-mile stretch of Nevada’s main north-south highway for almost 24 hours in October was caused by rainfall that seeped through a compromised cover and reacted with metallic sodium, according to a report released Thursday.
A video of Sunday’s explosions that preceded a fire in a state-owned radioactive waste trench at the US Ecology site 10 miles south of Beatty shows white smoke emanating from the soil before the ground erupts, shooting debris and more white smoke into the air.
A popular highway that links Las Vegas and Central California remained closed Saturday night after a mudslide stranded nearly 200 vehicles in the small mountain town of Tehachapi on Thursday night, authorities said.
The wholesale water supplier is rolling out its new ad campaign — “There’s Nothing Sexier than Saving Water” — this week to coincide with Tuesday’s start of the fall watering schedule, which limits irrigation use to three assigned days per week through Oct. 31.
A federal judge Tuesday ordered the government to pay $146,938 in legal fees to the driver of a motor home who fought the seizure of cash from the home on a Nevada highway.
The California Highway Patrol is investigating alleged price-gouging by towing companies that moved vehicles from Interstate 15 after the North Fire that burned more than 5,000 acres and torched 20 cars.
With the stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama created more green on the Nevada map Friday when he signed a proclamation designating a 704,000-acre national monument conservation area in the state.
State and local authorities have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property worth $3 billion under the equitable sharing program since 2008.
Authorities have tentatively identified all nine bodies from a sightseeing plane that crashed into a cliff in southeast Alaska.
They left Las Vegas a week ago, taking turns carrying the baton. At the end of a 450-mile relay that followed U.S. 95 northwest through Nevada, the baton will be delivered today.
