A program of cash awards for state employees who come up with ways to save taxpayer money has turned out to be an ordeal rather than a positive experience for Nevada Department of Health and Human Services analyst Theron Huntamer.
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The big names set to decide Nevada’s biggest issues will sit down next month for a legislative panel discussion co-hosted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
With only hours to spare, the U.S. House last week approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill needed to avoid a government shutdown.
A police report provides new details in one of the cases against former Bullhead City, Ariz., police Sgt. Jesse Hoag who is accused of forcing himself upon two women he met at the same Laughlin bar during separate October incidents.
A sheriff in rural eastern Nevada says a 63-year-old man who had been sought in the shooting death of his wife and torching of their home was found dead in his pickup truck on a dirt road in a remote mountain pass.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada said Friday that Congress next year will take up legislation to outlaw Internet gambling, and he plans to support a ban while trying to gain an exemption for online poker.
The American and Italian flags hang from the front of a tunneling machine that just finished drilling a three-mile tunnel under Lake Mead and into a water intake structure placed at the bottom of the reservoir in 2012.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said Friday he is not getting involved in the ongoing Assembly leadership dispute, and that he will work with whoever ends up in control when the Legislature gets to work on Feb. 2.
Southern Nevadans who say they lost thousands of dollars to a pyramid scheme run by Herbalife called on Nevada’s attorney general Thursday to investigate the company, which sells nutritional and weight-loss products.
Congress is laying down a gauntlet on the sage grouse, challenging federal land managers to come up with better plans to avoid listing the desert bird as threatened or endangered, Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada said Thursday.
The first chunk of new roadway for the dream that is Interstate 11 took another step closer to reality Thursday.
Winds gusting to 140 mph through Sierra Nevada passes ahead of a powerful Pacific storm damaged homes and a church in South Lake Tahoe, closed schools, and grounded commercial airline flights in Reno.
A 90-day jail sentence was imposed Thursday for a police officer’s wife and former dispatcher who looted funds while serving as treasurer of the Bullhead City Police Officer’s Association in Arizona.
A Bullhead City, Ariz., police sergeant facing prosecution for sex offenses on both sides of the Colorado River has resigned his position.
President Barack Obama’s offer of temporary legal status to millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally promises their families a path to normalcy and a reprieve from fear of being separated through deportation, Las Vegas student Astrid Silva told the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.