A state panel began the tough task Monday of wading through possible changes to more than a century of water law and other measures to better position Nevada to weather prolonged drought.
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New political opportunities, term limits and retirements will combine to produce significant changes to the makeup of the Nevada Legislature in the 2016 election year.
Arson investigators in Dolan Springs are trying to determine what sparked a pair of “suspicious” fires that destroyed one church and “caused heavy damage” to another Saturday night, according to the Kingman Daily Miner.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval announced the ceremonial replacement Friday of more than 100 historical markers as part of the state’s 150th birthday celebration.
Elko and Eureka counties and two mining companies have filed the first lawsuit in Nevada challenging new federal land management plans intended to protect sage grouse, arguing that the rules are overbroad and were imposed in violation of existing law.
An Arizona woman whose daughter was killed almost 13 months ago has been sentenced to prison for her drug-dealing involvement following the homicide.
A 67-year-old inmate at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City died Thursday, the Nevada Department of Corrections said.
The bodies of two Nevada ghost hunters who appeared on “Ghost Adventures” were found by police after they stormed a Sparks apartment after an hours-long standoff.
Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Wednesday he has appointed Paul Thomsen as chairman of the Nevada Public Utilities Commission beginning Oct. 1.
James D. Santini, a champion of mining and tourism who represented Nevada in Congress as the state was embarking on a run of unprecedented growth in the mid- to late 1970s, passed away Tuesday. He was 78.
Gov. Brian Sandoval opened a three-day water summit Monday with his own observations of a drought-stricken landscape of depleted reservoirs, rivers reduced to trickles and mountaintops no longer capped with snow.
In the midst of a national discussion about police brutality and accountability, the Las Vegas police policy of releasing body camera footage is “heading in the right direction,” according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Water, the lack of it and how the driest state in the nation can best stretch every last drop will be the focus of a three-day drought summit that convenes Monday in Carson City.
Two wild donkeys crossed the road in front of a line of cars rolling into Spring Mountain Ranch State Park on Saturday morning, making it clear that this wasn’t your typical Las Vegas attraction.
Merv Adelson was 83 years old, but he was still limber enough to play semantical Twister. When Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough asked the obvious question in 2013 about Adelson’s historical ties to the late mob bootlegging king and Las Vegas forefather Moe Dalitz, the octogenarian’s backflip would have made a Cirque du Soleil acrobat proud.