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After watching 39 new correctional officers being sworn in Friday, new Nevada Department of Corrections Director James Dzurenda said he plans to temporarily prohibit the use of birdshot while a newly formed research committee looks at alternatives and reviews the department’s use of force.
Nevada should re-evaluate sentencing ranges for some felony crimes and make better use of probation for low-level, non-violent offenders to keep its prison population in check, a criminal justice consultant said Friday.
Attorneys involved in creating limited liability corporations in Nevada and other states questioned Friday whether new rules announced by the White House to bring more transparency to the process are an overreach that won’t successfully combat tax evasion, money laundering and financial crime.
Donald Trump’s apparent lock on the Republican presidential nomination means advocates of large-scale transfers of federal lands to states in the West likely won’t find support in the White House regardless of who wins election in November.
Fire officials are investigating the cause of an overnight fire that destroyed three buildings and a shed about 35 miles north of Las Vegas, and charred 3 acres of surrounding trees and farmland.
An inmate serving a life sentence died at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center on Thursday.
Great Basin National Park just won certification as an International Dark Sky Park, a rare designation that places it alongside other starry wonderlands such as Death Valley National Park, Capitol Reef and Canyonlands.
Gov. Brian Sandoval has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Thursday in honor of National Police Week.
A Nevada lawyer and lobbyist and his wife are being sued by Bank of the West over the family’s Lake Tahoe house.
It was a dreary day for a somber ceremony Thursday as law enforcement officers from around the state gathered in the rain to remember fallen capital city sheriff’s Deputy Carl Howell at the annual Law Enforcement Officers Memorial ceremony.
A swarm of dozens of mostly small earthquakes in a sparsely populated area of northwestern Arizona has continued with the strongest quake recorded so far.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid says he thinks Gov. Brian Sandoval should vote for “none of the above” rather than for Donald Trump.
An unresponsive hiker was rescued Wednesday afternoon at Goldstrike Canyon trail before being airlifted to the hospital.
For Republicans running in Nevada races, Donald Trump’s dominant lead in the presidential race adds another layer of complication: Should they support him or reject him?
The Obama administration is revising a federal rule that allows wind-energy companies to operate high-speed turbines for up to 30 years, even if means killing or injuring thousands of federally protected bald and golden eagles.
