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Yucca Mountain backers mount push to revive nuke program

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.

BLM chief: Lawbreakers in Bundy confrontation will be held accountable

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.

Fallout from Obamacare dominates final GOP lieutenant governor’s debate

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.

Report: Highway fund shortfall would lead to congestion, job losses

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.

Nevadans stuck in Arizona desert for 3 days

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.

 
Possible charges against Utah ATV protest riders

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.

Nevada GOP drops platforms against abortions, gay marriage, endorses Sandoval

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.

Washington Digest: House Republicans approve budget blueprint

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.

Colorful state bird often falls victim by the hundreds to mining pipes

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.

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