The usual happenings in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area carried on Saturday despite a partial government shutdown now expected to drag into Christmas.
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The two amateur prospectors spied what they had come looking for— an abandoned mine shaft possibly hiding treasure within. But it wasn’t gold or silver the two sought in a rural Nevada forest. It was blue jeans from the long-ago days of the Comstock Lode.
As families browsed hundreds of pre-cut evergreens at a Summerlin Christmas tree lot, Division of Forestry resource management officer Cayenne Engel was on her own search, part of a routine inspection for trees illegally harvested in Nevada.
Dubbed Gigafactory #1 — the first of potentially many Tesla hopes to build around the world — the plant has a production level of 20 gigawatt hours.
The Nevada State Museum is home to hundreds of pieces that have been collected to help educate people about the state and its natural history.
Melvin Dummar has died. He won fame for supposedly rescuing Howard Hughes from the Central Nevada desert in December 1967, but he never saw a dime of the billionaire’s fortune, despite a disputed will that named him as a beneficiary.
The West Wendover Police Department reports one of its officers shot and killed the driver of a small pickup who produced a knife during a pursuit Saturday afternoon.
A deputy shot and killed a Pahrump man Thursday night after he opened fire during a standoff with officers, marking the first officer-involved shooting this year for the Nye County sheriff’s office.
Clark County Animal Control recovered 35 dogs last week from a home in Moapa Valley, about 60 miles northeast of Las Vegas.