Federal mine safety regulators are investigating the death of a worker at an underground gold mine in Elko County.
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Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo says he still has a number of concerns over the way his officers handled the arrest of his second in command last week in a case that has ties to the political campaigns to replace him.
Members of Congress took the first steps Wednesday to stave off or reduce cuts to military benefits that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had proposed earlier this year.
The federal government paid $236 million to landowners in 11 states — including $35.6 million in Nevada — to preserve sage-grouse habitat amid a debate over whether the bird should be listed as an endangered species — potentially hindering energy development and ranching.
Operations at McCarran International Airport are returning to normal after flights were grounded for about an hour and a half Wednesday following an unspecified computer problem in the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control operation in Southern California.
A Northern Nevada Correctional Center inmate died Wednesday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections. Jerome Urban, 56, who died at the correctional center’s Regional Medical Facility, had a chronic medical condition.
Faced with a staggering backlog of veterans’ disability claims in Nevada, the Department of Veterans Affairs will add 20 employees to process claims at the VA’s Las Vegas benefits office.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife is recommending hunters statewide be allowed to take more elk and fewer mule deer this year due in part to persistent drought that will make it difficult to support typical deer herd sizes.
Nevada’s U.S. senators split Wednesday on raising the minimum wage to an hourly $10.10.
GOP congressional candidates Assemblyman Cresent Hardy and Niger Innis clashed in debate Tuesday over the Bureau of Land Management and its attempt to round up Cliven Bundy’s cattle on public land.