A federal judge on Tuesday blocked an Obama administration rule to extend mandatory overtime pay to more than 4 million workers from taking effect, imperiling one of the outgoing president’s signature achievements for boosting wages.
Local Nevada
Your trusted Nevada news source. Discover local updates, breaking news and headlines for Nevada here.
Anti-poaching group offers $3,000 reward for tip that leads to person or persons who gunned down the animals in September near Wheeler Pass Road.
Hillary Clinton captured state with 47.92 percent of the vote, marking only the second time in 108 years Nevadans didn’t side with the president-elect.
Democrats Teresa Benitez-Thompson of Reno and Irene Bustamante Adams of Las Vegas round out leadership team for 2017 legislative session.
Harold Furbay, 56, who was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, died at about 7:30 p.m., according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Incumbent Assemblywoman Jill Dickman, R-Sparks, picked up two votes, but it wasn’t enough to erase victory by Democrat Skip Daly.
Nevada drone experts have finished a Federal Aviation Administration operation in Denver to develop the counter unmanned systems industry, which is the development of defense systems against drone threats.
IOC’s push for regional bids prompts Nevada group to consider hosting events in Southern Nevada to improve chances of landing games as soon as 2026.
Although all four people aboard were killed when a medical aircraft went down in Northern Nevada, police say the pilot likely saved lives by crashing the plane into a parking lot while avoiding nearby homes and businesses.
A dearth of hospitals and medical professionals, an increasingly strained emergency care network and sharply escalating costs are threatening the quality of life in many of the state’s small towns and communities.
Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly won Nevada’s Latino vote by a two-to-one margin over Donald Trump, but that margin was significantly tighter than anyone expected and trailed the support President Barack Obama garnered from Latinos in 2012.
An air-ambulance plane taking a heart-disease patient to a Utah hospital crashed in a parking lot in northern Nevada, killing all four people aboard and sending up explosions and flames.
Nevada’s Office of Vital Records worked with advocacy groups to implement the new rule, bringing the process to request a gender change on birth records in line with the processes for similar requests related to birth and death certificate alterations.
The charter takeover issue has turned into a finger-pointing battle between the Clark County School District and the newly-formed Achievement School District.
It would take more than a decade and cost at least $30 billion before the shuttered underground dump site at Yucca Mountain could begin accepting shipments of highly radioactive waste, according to experts on the controversial project.