In total, the Review-Journal and its sister publications received 128 awards, including three general excellence awards. The Review-Journal, the Pahrump Valley Times and the Boulder City Review were recognized as the best newspapers in the state in their respective circulation categories.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 67 undocumented people in Clark County over the past week, the agency said Friday.
The University of Nevada Medical School in Reno has received a $2 million grant to help develop new approaches to guard against dangers related to premature labor.
Herbicide treatments, set to begin Tuesday, will target red brome and other nonnative grasses at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and three other sites that have been slow to recover since being scorched by wildfires.
People packed the Chaparral High School gymnasium Sunday evening to hear Michelle Obama, celebrities and local leaders speak on the importance of registering to vote. They called on the crowd to ensure they were registered — and to ensure their friends, family and colleagues were registered — with Election Day around the corner.
Burning Man volunteers are working to get a partially reassembled 747 airplane that was on display during the counter-culture festival out of the Black Rock Desert. The plane is still at the playa about three weeks after the event’s flashy conclusion.
One by one, members of the Rancho High School color guard placed a red rose onto a white and blue wreath on Friday at Nellis Air Force Base — each representing a Nevadan listed as missing in action in U.S. military conflicts.
Diana Brown Sanfilippo, 70, of Stateline at Lake Tahoe says she has new hope that she’ll one day be reunited with her father, Nevada Air National Guard 1st Lt. Frank Salazar, after witnessing the return of MIA remains from North Korea.
Impairment was suspected in a rollover crash that killed a Mesquite woman and injured a 10-year-old boy this week near Moapa, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
The U.S. Department of Justice grants will go to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, which will receive the biggest grant in Nevada at $1.35 million; the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, $1 million; the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, $450,000; and the Moapa Band of Paiutes, about $300,000.
