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An investigation by the Nye County Sheriff’s Office has concluded that staff at the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump did not commit any criminal violations when they disciplined incarcerated rancher Ammon Bundy, who is accused of organizing an assault on federal agents.
The Clark County coroner’s office will release the decedent’s identity once next of kin have been notified.
Las Vegas police arrested a man on a murder charge after possible human remains were found encased in concrete earlier this month near Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Restoration ecologist Lindsay Chiquoine studies biological soil crusts, a once-overlooked world of highly specialized mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria at a research site near Lake Mead.
The state’s top gaming regulator said Friday that he’s concerned about political influence on the oversight of Nevada’s dominant industry and has nothing against Attorney General Adam Laxalt, a prospective Republican candidate for governor.
The federal agency in charge of U.S. nuclear weapons sites on Friday awarded a $5 billion contract to manage and operate the Nevada National Security Site for up to 10 years to Mission Support and Test Services LLC, a division of Honeywell.
Congresswoman Jacky Rosen called on students Friday at the College of Southern Nevada to be ambassadors for their respective science, technology, engineering and math fields.
This summer, two competitions give Nevada entrepreneurs a chance at almost $100,000 worth of cash and services to help grow their business.
Reno police officers likely saved many lives when they fatally shot a potentially homicidal California man who drove a mini-van into the middle of a chicken wing festival on a crowded downtown street last Fourth of July weekend, the Washoe County district attorney said Thursday.
The Nevada Legislature paused Thursday to honor the life and legacy of native son and former longtime Boulder City Mayor Robert Ferraro.
Public is invited to weigh in on the review of 22 national monuments targeted for reconsideration, including two in Nevada: Gold Butte in northeastern Clark County and Basin and Range in remote Lincoln and Nye counties.
Seventeen-mile canal built in preparation for record Sierra Nevada snowmelt will send Carson River floodwaters underneath U.S. Highway 50 to the Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge near Fallon.
Supporters of Nevada cattleman and states’ rights advocate Cliven Bundy and his sons have built a mock jail cell outside a rural Nevada federal prison where 17 defendants are being held pending trial in a 2014 standoff with government agents near the Bundy ranch outside Las Vegas.
A man who suffers from epilepsy has filed a federal lawsuit that accuses two Reno police officers of beating him while he was having a grand mal seizure – and then arresting him for unusual behavior that resulted from the seizure.
As Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wrapped up his “listening tour” of national monument sites in Utah on Wednesday, officials and advocates in Nevada were still awaiting details on how the Trump administration’s monumental review might impact the Silver State.
