The Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday identified the skeletal remains of a hiker found Dec. 30 in Mountain Springs, an unincorporated area south of the Spring Mountains between Las Vegas and Pahrump.
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The staff of the Nevada Public Utilities Commission is recommending denial of a request by a rooftop-solar group to delay the implementation of new net metering rates that took effect Jan. 1.
A Las Vegas woman who became the focus of a legal battle over whether doctors could remove her from life support has died, a lawyer for the family said Tuesday.
Nearly 30 years after the first overture was initiated to settle decades of water wars over the Truckee River, clearing the last hurdles to implementing a pact was celebrated Tuesday.
Nevada Supreme Court justices heard arguments Tuesday on whether an average taxpayer should have legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of a state fund that has been used to provide financial support to private companies for economic development purposes.
A Northern Nevada Correctional Center inmate died at about midnight Monday, a release from the Nevada Department of Corrections said.
Even as a boy, Colby Frey knew there was something special about his house, the grand old home that anchors the family ranch in Northern Nevada’s expansive Lahontan Valley.
The Bundy sons are on a mission with militiamen. It’s taken them to a quiet corner of rural Oregon, where the armed militiamen have attracted headlines by taking over the federal headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge south of Burns.
Powerball’s jackpot has surged to an estimated $400 million after the first drawing of the new year resulted in no winning ticket holders, the operator of the multistate game said on Sunday.
Madam Jennifer O’Kane knows a stark little truism about the world’s oldest profession: Discretion is a working girl’s best friend.
Friends and family members knew Charlie Demos as a proud Greek-American, good father, military veteran and prosecuting attorney who practiced law for 56 years in Florida.
Mayor Geno Martini recalls the day in 2010 when his doctor delivered the crushing news: He had Parkinson’s disease, a painful debilitating disorder without a cure. Later, he slid inside his pickup truck and started the ignition. Then he just sat there.
State land stewards are experimenting with an ancient method to improve the health of Nevada forests and make use of the renewable resource — baking tree trunks and limbs in a slow cooker to turn them into charcoal.
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that multiple prison terms handed out to juvenile offenders that amount to a life-without-parole sentence for crimes other than murder are unconstitutional because of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
A fire at a low-level radioactive waste dump in Nye County that shut down a 140-mile stretch of Nevada’s main north-south highway for almost 24 hours in October was caused by rainfall that seeped through a compromised cover and reacted with metallic sodium, according to a report released Thursday.