The state Board of Examiners on Tuesday approved using $414,000 in legal settlement funds received by the attorney general’s office to expand the testing of backlogged rape kits held by the Washoe County sheriff’s office.
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A Las Vegas judge tossed the case of a Republican Nevada Assembly candidate who challenged the results of a primary race she lost last month and wanted two precincts in the Moapa Valley area to cast their ballots again.
An Elko County man has been arrested in connection with abuses of the guardianship system, the Nevada attorney general’s office announced Tuesday.
Nevada’s juvenile justice system will get a thorough review with help from the U.S. Department of Justice in an initiative announced Tuesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Burning Man organizers are disputing their $2.8 million bill from the federal government — the cost last year of hosting its popular outdoor festival in the Black Rock Desert, a national conservation area in Nevada.
The state Board of Examiners on Tuesday approved $2.5 million more for Nevada to keep fighting against a proposed high-level nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.
Nevada officials on Tuesday approved a $120,000 settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency over violations relating to polluted stormwater runoff from state Department of Transportation-run facilities.
Officials say northwestern Arizona is seeing depleting aquifers because of growth and water use by farming operations.
RENO — Lawyers for a Nevada death row inmate seeking a new trial after he was convicted of the rape and murder of a college student argued Monday that one of Reno’s highest profile cases in decades should have been moved somewhere else.
In order to provide a solid future for their children, Fabian Coleman and his wife, Nina, have saved money so he can go to truck driving school and buy his own truck. Now he worries that technology could end his dream and throw millions of truckers out work.
Two Bureau of Land Management firefighters died and another was injured in a single-vehicle crash in Northern Nevada Sunday.
Some Nevadans are pushing the federal government to transfer more public acreage to state control, but history suggests past management of these lands by those entrusted with their care was mired in corruption.
A few months after the outspoken billionaire declared his long-shot candidacy for the White House, the owners of the International Cafe and Bar here began plastering Trump signs outside their historic 1863-era building in the heart of town.
A Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant who took photos of his erect penis and sent them to a dispatcher in the Las Vegas office of the agency in 2008 had his termination upheld Friday by a state hearing officer.
A conservative think tank wants a judge to force Nevada’s Public Employees Retirement System to release the names of pension recipients.