Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey defended their states’ gun laws after California Gov. Jerry Brown lambasted the two neighboring states’ laws as “wide open”and “a gigantic back door through which any terrorist can walk.”
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Congress approved a five-year transportation bill last week, ending a decade of stopgap funding extensions that had frustrated long-term road, bridge and transit planning across the country.
A little more than six months after Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a dizzying list of education reforms into law, policymakers and education leaders will meet Monday to consider what’s next for the Silver State.
The National Park Service will celebrate its 100th birthday in 2016 by offering free admission to all parks on 16 select days in the upcoming year, and the Bureau of Land Management is joining the party.
Western governors gathered Friday for a conference in Las Vegas, just two days after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, put a renewed emphasis on homeland security.
Gov. Brian Sandoval received assurance Friday from Interior Secretary Sally Jewell that the federal government will honor existing mineral rights and use Nevada’s updated maps when considering land-use restrictions to protect sage grouse.
Nevada will receive millions in new transportation dollars and a significant interstate designation was given to a future route linking Las Vegas and Reno under a five-year, $305 billion measure signed into law Friday by President Barack Obama.
A state judge Wednesday ruled that a referendum seeking to put Nevada’s new commerce tax to a public vote can proceed.
Everything was ready for the arrest. A frantic phone call had prompted a Boulder City police detective to investigate whether the city’s head of animal control had, just for fun, been killing animals in the city’s shelter.
Nevada’s Public Employees Retirement System, with more than $34 billion in assets, is overseen by a panel of seven public-sector workers appointed by the governor.
The stars haven’t aligned just yet for a planned observatory at Great Basin National Park, but its backers are within in sight of their goal.
An inmate with the Nevada Department of Corrections died at Centennial Hills Hospital Saturday, according to a release.
After a bureaucratic nightmare left her virtually homeless for a year, unsure what her future would hold, Bonnie McGrew has a plan.
William G. “Bill” Roberts, a Tonopah native and longtime central Nevada journalist, died Saturday at Renown Medical Center in Reno following a brief illness. He was 64.
Two people are confirmed dead after a Wednesday morning collision between a tractor-trailor and pickup on state Route 318 near mile marker 18 in Nye County, according to Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Loy Hixson.