Every kindergartner in Nevada public schools now has a college savings account with a $50 balance. The Nevada state treasurer’s office opened these 35,000 accounts and made the $1.8 million in deposits using no taxpayer money, repeating what it did last year for that kindergarten class of about the same size.
A new program is offering free legal services to the victims of recent flooding in the Moapa Valley.
The Nevada Department of Homeland Security is returning more than $100,000 in unspent federal funds from 2011 and 2012 because not all of the grant money could be put to use within the allowable time frame, the Homeland Security Commission was told Monday.
Anti-nuclear weapons demonstrators marched through the desert toward the Nevada National Security Site during a civil disobedience action marking the United Nations International Day of Peace on Sunday.
In the three competitive Nevada Senate races that will determine whether Republicans retake control of the upper house, the GOP candidates have refused to debate their Democratic opponents.
With glitzier modes of passenger rail seemingly having fallen by the track, Rep. Dina Titus says Las Vegas should look into what it might take to restore conventional Amtrak service to Southern California.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal and its staff won first place for general excellence for the sixth year in a row Saturday in the Nevada Press Association’s 2014 Better Newspaper Contest.
Rain fell intermittently near Moapa Saturday night, leading the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood advisory.
A man who had been armed with an ax and barricaded himself in an apartment with children has been taken into custody in Laughlin, Las Vegas police said.
Nevada’s housing market is about average these days, and observers say that’s just fine.
