Make no bones about it: Nevada is getting a national monument at the northern edge of the Las Vegas Valley.
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It’s been a big year, Nevada. You’ve celebrated the 150th anniversary of statehood throughout 2014, and as ever plenty of books were published that attempt to capture your irascible spirit. Those books are sure to spark debate and make memorable Christmas gifts.
Two recent court decisions regarding the collection of use taxes on coal used by utility companies will save Nevada $200 million, state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Thursday.
Las Vegas Assemblywoman Michele Fiore’s tax liens and problems with the IRS were cited in her second removal from Assembly leadership positions Thursday.
The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the death sentence of a Kingman man who was convicted of first-degree murder.
Federal safety analysts have found a flaw in the plan to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain — the government does not have the necessary water rights to operate at the Nevada site.
Three Lake Havasu City police officers were justified when they opened fire Nov. 23, killing a Lake Havasu City man who pointed his firearm at them, the Kingman Police Department determined after an independent review of the incident.
Nevada state officials deposited numerous items into a time capsule on Monday, which will be buried on the Capitol grounds for opening at the state’s bicentennial in 2064.
Las Vegas police arrested a man after a three-hour standoff at a Laughlin apartment that started after a gas station in the Colorado River town was robbed.
The Clark County coroner’s office has released the cause of death for a fisherman whose body was found in October at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, eight months after he’d been reported missing.
The credit rating firm Moody’s on Monday called Nevada’s looming $162 million budget shortfall a “credit negative.”
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday criticized state Department of Transportation staff for failing to address stormwater issues found in an audit by a federal agency that could now lead to millions of dollars in additional costs to the state.
An ice age boneyard at the northern edge of the Las Vegas Valley is now one signature away from becoming Nevada’s newest federally recognized natural landmark.
The idea got a frosty reception in rural Nevada, but U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada says he intends to keep pushing for the withdrawal of 805,100 acres of federal land in Lincoln and Nye counties.
When Chris DeWitt began restoring the historic narrow-gauge Glenbrook locomotive for the state railroad museum in the capital city, little did he know that it was going to be a 30-plus-year labor of love.