Nevada has no executions on the immediate horizon but is pushing ahead to build a new death chamber at Ely State Prison and would use a drug at the heart of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case to carry out lethal injections.
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Gov. Brian Sandoval said last week that if critics of the new commerce tax push to get their proposal on the November 2016 ballot as a referendum, voters need to know the potential consequences if it is repealed.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said last week that if critics of the new commerce tax push to get their proposal on the November 2016 ballot as a referendum, voters need to know the potential consequences if it is repealed.
The U.S. House passed a bill last week to rewrite the No Child Left Behind law intended to give states more flexibility in testing student achievement.
A high-stakes election is ahead as both parties hope to claim the retiring Nevada Democrat’s Senate seat.
A wildfire in Zion National Park forced the closure of a popular hiking trail Saturday and two other fires burning in the Grand Canyon National Park limited visibility for motorists and merged in the afternoon to form one wildfire.
Arizona prisons Director Charles Ryan has provided additional details of unrest and rioting that injured 12 people and ransacked the state prison in northwest Arizona last week.
With the stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama created more green on the Nevada map Friday when he signed a proclamation designating a 704,000-acre national monument conservation area in the state.
Caleb Cage, who has served in Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Cabinet as director of military and veterans policy, was appointed Friday as the governor’s homeland security adviser.
Years after his father died in a rodeo accident while trying to save a youngster on a runaway horse in Tonopah, former Sheriff Ralph Lamb met the boy his dad saved while serving in the Army in Korea.
A vast sweep of rural Nevada marked by lonely desert valleys, craggy mountain ranges and both ancient and modern art will become the newest addition to the nation’s inventory of protected landscapes on Friday.
In order to get a longer-lasting bang out of the nation’s nuclear bomb bucks, government scientists conducted a life-extension test of the aging B61 nuclear bomb using a fighter jet from Nellis Air Force Base to drop a dummy version of it July 1 at the Tonopah Test Range.
The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles announced Thursday it has hired 70 new employees to help reduce long wait times at its four urban Southern Nevada offices that are now averaging nearly two hours.
The Nevada Public Employees Retirement System has reported a preliminary 4.1 percent rate of return on its investments in the 2015 fiscal year that ended June 30, bringing the plan’s total assets to $34.4 billion.
A court settlement clears the way for construction to resume at the massive housing development 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas. At full build-out, Coyote Springs would be twice the size of Summerlin.