A temporary city on a desert playa 120 miles north of Reno will play host to tens of thousands of free-spirited, art-loving dwellers who will dance, sing, cavort and play with light and fire under the Nevada sky.
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Shannon West is one of two Southern Nevada programs focused on the area’s young homeless demographic. Because the facility can only take in 65 youths at a time, there is usually a waitlist. But plans are underway to change that.
WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday announced two public meetings in Nevada to discuss the latest environmental report on the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
Wildfires are burning all around Southern Nevada, including northern Arizona. But the blaze that has brought dense smoke to the Las Vegas Valley over the past three days is the Rough Fire, which was ignited July 31 by a lightning strike in Kings Canyon in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Fresno, Calif.
Nye County officials announced contingency plans Friday for handling emergencies in Nevada’s remote central region following the abrupt closure of a small regional hospital in Tonopah.
Thousands of Nevada Medicaid patients may soon have to find new doctors.
“Night Stalker” author Jeff Rice probably would have appreciated a little more mystery associated with his July 1 death in Las Vegas. When you live in a creative world riddled with blood suckers and neck crushers, an ordinary death seems just a little tame.
Several thousand mourners, many in uniform from law enforcement agencies from around the country, gathered here on Thursday to pay respects to Carson City Sheriff’s Deputy Carl Howell, killed while responding to a domestic violence incident Saturday.
Burning Man organizers and volunteers setting up for the annual festival dedicated to art and free expression are contending with a new challenge: bugs.
The city of Yerington in Lyon County grew a little bit bigger Friday after the federal government completed the transfer of public lands to local control.
A former Nevada correctional officer who pleaded guilty to supplying inmates with marijuana has received a suspended prison sentence and placed on probation, the attorney general’s office said Thursday.
Nevada is receiving a $2 million grant from the Department of Defense to protect and restore sage grouse habitat within the Navy’s training grounds around Naval Air Station Fallon, officials announced Thursday.
The Nevada Supreme Court is about to pave over one of downtown Las Vegas’ few remaining parking paradises.
The death of an inmate at a prison near Kingman, Arizona, has been ruled a homicide.
An 80-year-old man serving time for the 2006 stabbing death of his neighbor at a Las Vegas retirement home has died, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.