From the Moapa Zoo to O.J. Simpson to the Bunkhouse Saloon, here’s a look back at some of the people and places we wrote about this year.
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With Yucca Mountain mothballed as a nuclear waste repository, the U.S. Energy Department on Monday launched a “consent-based” siting process to ensure that communities, tribes and states are comfortable with the location of future storage and disposal sites before they are constructed.
Congress on Friday approved a massive spending bill for the fiscal year that included no new funding for Yucca Mountain to the delight of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
Southern Nevada’s epic housing bust was a presidential campaign issue on Wednesday.
Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem and Ward 6 Councilman Steve Ross has watched the city grow since he moved to the area in 1972.
Nevada officials dispute the findings of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff’s latest impact report for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
Yucca Mountain Project opponent Richard Bryan said Tuesday he was “stunned” when he watched a video of small explosions that followed more powerful ones Oct. 18 at a low-level nuclear waste dump near Beatty.
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.
Whatever caught fire Sunday in the state-owned radioactive waste dump at the US Ecology site near Beatty packed a powerful punch, Nevada’s chief fire marshal said Tuesday.
Donald Trump demeaned voters last Thursday when he said they didn’t need written policy papers.