President Barack Obama shifted gears Tuesday on nuclear waste in a move that could put even more distance between his administration and the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada.
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The inmate died Saturday at at the Regional Medical Facility at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City, the Department of Corrections said Monday.
Only 17 percent of voters in Nevada Assembly Speaker John Hambrick’s Las Vegas district approve of an effort to recall the Republican, according to a poll released Monday.
The executive director for the organization that represents the state’s two largest education unions has been replaced. It was not immediately clear if Gary Peck was fired or resigned from the leadership post at the Nevada State Education Association. According to the NSEA web site, Peck has been replaced by interim executive director Richard “Dick” Terry.
A Tonopah man was arrested Monday in connection with the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl in 2011, the Nye County Sheriff’s office announced Monday.
Nevada regulators Monday gave final licensing approval for the state’s first medical marijuana cultivation facility north of Reno.
A trend of fewer traffic tickets being written by police around the state may be a boon for motorists, but it is creating a financial crisis for the Nevada Supreme Court, which says it will go broke May 1 without more state funding.
Nevada should open an “honest discussion” with the federal government over burying nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain to determine if citizens might want it and what benefits the state might obtain for hosting it, according to U.S. Rep. Cresent Hardy, R-Nev.
Former power broker and attorney Harvey Whittemore, convicted of funneling money to U.S. Sen. Harry Reid 2007 re-election committee, on Friday was suspended from practicing law for four years, according to the Nevada Supreme Court.
Presidential campaign teams are stepping up the pace in Nevada as the early primary state’s political operatives are in high demand on both the Republican and Democratic sides.
A new report is giving Nevada a high-five for improving online transparency of government spending.
A 26-year-old Pahrump woman was arrested after Nye County sheriff’s deputies said she used a stolen debit card at several businesses there.
A 20-year prison term was imposed Friday for Robert Adkins, 53, of Kingman, Ariz., who was convicted in the beating death of his disabled roommate.
State and federal health officials have launched an investigation after a worker at Zion National Park tested positive for tuberculosis.
Two members of Congress from Nevada are reserving seats on the tour that will take a group of lawmakers to Yucca Mountain next month, a visit its organizer hopes will spark new interest in the shuttered nuclear waste site.