A sheriff accused of misconduct in an old Nevada mining town faced a recall election Tuesday sparked by an odd mix of local critics, an influential brothel owner and managers of the industrial park that houses Tesla’s big factory that makes batteries for its electric cars.
The Pentagon has announced that Nevada will become home to a nearly 20-year project regarding unmanned aircraft and the U.S. Air Force.
The Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain program was defunded and dismantled under President Barack Obama, leaving only a handful of scientists from the hundreds who once worked on the project.
The water demands of Arizona, Nevada and California are outstripping supply, the impacts of climate change are becoming acute and the river is at a breaking point, American Rivers says in its annual ranking.
Dr. Dipak Desai, the doctor serving time for his role in the deadly 2007 hepatitis C outbreak, has died.
