Neil Armstrong’s astronaut training in Nevada went much more smoothly than his disastrous stops here in 1962, which ended with a stuck fighter jet and a hard landing.
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In February 1965, Neil Armstrong and his fellow Apollo 11 crew members spent three days exploring at what was then known as the Nevada Test Site.
A 9-year-old Reno girl has died from injuries she suffered when strong winds blew an inflatable bounce house with three children inside into power lines last weekend.
University of Nevada, Reno, students displaced by the explosion that destroyed two campus residence halls could find themselves living in the Circus Circus casino in Reno.
The Trump administration is proposing an ambitious plan to slow Western wildfires by bulldozing, mowing or revegetating large swaths of land along 11,000 miles of terrain in the West.
For three weeks, the lake has been within an inch of its maximum allowed surface elevation of 6,229.1 feet above sea level,
Witnesses reported a man in a kayak went under the surface at Washoe Lake and didn’t come up on Wednesday afternoon.
The Nevada treasurer’s office returned a record $44 million in unclaimed property in the past year, ranging from a nearly $930,000 payout down to a single penny.
Ryan Dashiell of Spokane, Washington, was treated at a hospital before being arrested on suspicion of operating an aircraft while under the influence of alcohol.
Two senior officials with Sen. Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign discussed the importance of Nevada as a diverse early state and shared some insights on the candidate’s preparations for the second national debate.
Video from Devils Hole shows the water level drop at least 15 feet, but the rare pupfish are “just fine” after a pair of earthquakes this month.
NV Energy said about 1,660 remained without power Tuesday afternoon but all power was expected to be restored by evening.
Sheryl Powell, 60, said she was told to do what he said and he would refrain from using the knife on her and her small dog.
Both dormitories damaged in a natural gas explosion at the University of Nevada, Reno, will stay closed for at least a year and one won’t reopen until the fall of 2021.
“Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” the jokey Facebook event created by pranksters, has more than 1.2 million people pledging to “see them aliens.”
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