A prisoner serving time in a Northern Nevada prison died on Monday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
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An outside study on use of force at Nevada prisons will be submitted to the Department of Corrections on Monday, a week after Gov. Brian Sandoval asked for the resignation of the agency director for, in part, failing to deliver the report on time.
The executive director of the state agency that certifies peace officers faces a state ethics inquiry tied to his prior side work as a paid instructor for police academies.
The Nevada Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by O.J. Simpson for a new trial on kidnapping and robbery charges.
The Sheahan family’s feud with the Air Force over their Groom Mine property near the classified Area 51 installation will climax Thursday as the Air Force moves to seize it after a co-owner said the rejected $5.2 million offer was “disingenuous.”
Southern Nevada community and business leaders on a lobbying trip to the nation’s capital got a pitch Thursday on Yucca Mountain from the leading supporter of the controversial nuclear waste program.
A squirrel found dead at Lake Tahoe last month has tested positive for the plague, health officials said, marking the latest incidence of the disease in California that forced the temporary closure of two Yosemite National Park campgrounds.
Less than a week after 28 emaciated wild horses were rounded up and put down, Bureau of Land Management officials announced plans to collect more animals they say are at risk of starvation in the mountains outside Las Vegas.
The state Board of Examiners on Tuesday hired a former chief deputy attorney general under a $300,000 contract to continue Nevada’s efforts to fight the location of a nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain.
Passengers on a Monday Allegiant Air flight from Bismarck, N.D., to Las Vegas were collecting their suitcases Tuesday after their flight was diverted to St. George Regional Airport in Utah.
Just in time for its busiest camping season, Red Rock Canyon Campground is reopened, after a seasonal closure in May.
A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a lawsuit alleging that the Nevada Health and Human Services Department has been disenfranchising potential low-income and disabled voters by not providing registration materials to clients at its offices as required by federal law.
Investigators think alcohol played a role in an apparent drowning at Lake Havasu, Ariz., on Wednesday afternoon.
The Las Vegas FBI office was involved in the security details of the 2010 Burning Man event, according to documents requested by a California-based writer.
Nevada officials on Tuesday announced receiving an $11 million federal grant to expand mental health services for children.