The Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Act, passed by the 2017 Legislature, outlines safeguards for doctors before they prescribe controlled substances to treat pain and increases requirements necessary to continue a prescription.
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Jeff Iverson, clean and sober since a 2006 drug arrest, founded Freedom House Sober Living in 2010 as a way to help others find their path to addiction recovery.
A 44-year-old inmate serving a life sentence died Sunday at Valley Hospital Medical Center, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
A reminder for those heading out to New Year’s Eve parties tonight: The Strip and the roads leading to have closed.
A deranged man with an arsenal pierced the heart of Las Vegas hospitality. In the process, he revealed the often-overlooked and undersold spirit of the community.
Drivers heading to Southern California on Friday for New Year’s weekend are running into some heavy traffic.
More than 35,000 Nevadans have found jobs in the past year — and more than 25,000 of them were from Las Vegas, according to a new state report for November.
If Bob Swift has his way, there could be plenty of planes — maybe even some spacecraft — at his dream New Southwest Air Space Flight Museum.
The Nye County sheriff’s office identifies 49-year-old Douglas Hurtado as a suspect in the theft of stage equipment, a dance pole and push cart from the Chicken Ranch Brothel near Pahrump.
By a 3-0 vote on Friday, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada approved a rate cut for NV Energy customers that is expected to reduce the average residential monthly power bill by up to 2 percent.
An 11-year-old North Las Vegas boy who was reported missing Wednesday night has been found.
Democrats filed a lawsuit Wednesday in hopes of stopping a special election that could oust an incumbent Democratic state senator, claiming election officials failed to follow the law and that the effort is well short of the needed signatures.
Horse bones found in Gypsum Cave in the 1930s were so well preserved they were mistaken for modern equines and filed away in museums. Now they have helped identify a new type of extinct, stilt-legged horse that vanished eons ago.
A Las Vegas family court judge should have been more thorough when considering the best school interest of a child wrapped up in her parent’s divorce, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Nevada is off to a good start in its ambitious quest to become the “fastest-improving state in the nation” in education, but more work must be done, officials say.
