Bail has been set at $2 million for a 73-year-old former school teacher accused of murder in the shooting of two unarmed trespassers in Sparks that is bringing attention to Nevada’s “stand your ground” law.
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U.S. Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada is preparing a bill to cut red tape that hinders doctors at Nellis Air Force Base from treating veterans needing specialized care not available from the VA hospital in North Las Vegas.
A public land advocacy group sued the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday to make public documents on the agency’s handling of the armed standoff with Soouthern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
Clark County election officials scrambled late Tuesday night to retrieve the electronic ballots of 127 voters that were left behind when polls closed at the Las Vegas Academy.
U.S. House lawmakers this week again launched an energy spending bill containing $205 million for the Nevada program that President Barack Obama ended four years ago.
The director of the Bureau of Land Management said Monday that lawbreakers will be “held accountable” as the agency pursues a new plan to enforce court orders against Southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy for illegally grazing cattle on public land.
In what likely was their final debate, GOP lieutenant governor candidates Sue Lowden and Mark Hutchison clashed heatedly Monday over her $600,000 in unpaid campaign debts and his votes to implement Obamacare as a Nevada-run exchange despite his opposition to the health care insurance law.
Nevada drivers will have to live with increasing road congestion and multi-year delays to critical highway projects if Congress does not act by September to address a looming federal highway funding shortfall, state officials were told Monday.
Arizona authorities assisted two Nevada residents who were stranded three days in a remote area of southern Mohave County as they attempted to free their pickup truck after it got stuck in a wash.
The Bureau of Land Management has begun an investigation that could lead to charges against nearly 50 people who rode ATVs on an off-limits trail last weekend in Utah to show their displeasure with the federal government.
Amid raucous debate, Nevada Republican Party conventioneers on Saturday stripped opposition to gay marriage and abortion from the party platform and endorsed Gov. Brian Sandoval for governor in the June 10 primary despite misgivings by conservatives, his criticism of the process and his absence from the meeting.
House Republicans last week approved a blueprint for balancing the federal budget in 10 years, mostly by cutting taxes, revamping social programs and making deep cuts in domestic spending.
The mountain bluebird is so common in the West that it serves as the official state bird for both Nevada and Idaho. But there’s nothing common about its flashy blue plumage or about one uniquely Nevada way the birds die each year by the hundreds.
