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A federal appeals court has scheduled a briefing on Nevada’s legal challenge to Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner David Wright’s participation in decisions involving Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste storage at the proposed site, officials said Friday.

Nevada filed a petition Wednesday asking a federal appeals court to review the state’s request that a commissioner for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recuse himself from decisions involving Yucca Mountain.

Arizona Sen. John McCain may have been a lawmaker from a neighboring state, but his Senate actions and positions as a GOP presidential candidate reverberated through Nevada over the past two decades.

A Trump administration directive eliminating industry and developer payments for habitat protection in exchange for use of public lands has officials in Western states scrambling for answers.

The late Paul Laxalt, a former senator and Nevada governor, was remembered Thursday as a child of Basque immigrants who grew up to dedicate his life to his state and country.

Despite a stalemate in Congress that appears to have shelved action on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project for the year, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval urged state officials to be prepared, proactive and to take the battle to the federal government.

Justice Department grants totaling more than $3.4 billion will be made available to local victim assistance programs, including a Nevada-run program to help survivors of the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.

Senate Republicans are confirming President Donald Trump’s federal appellate judges at a fairly rapid clip, but vacancies in lower district courts remain unfilled, creating heavy workloads and delays for pending civil and criminal cases.