Another Nevada Republican took himself out of the running Tuesday for U.S. Senate in 2016. Rep. Mark Amodei said he does not plan to challenge incumbent Democrat Sen. Harry Reid.
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An Indiana wildlife artist’s painting of geese will grace the annual Nevada Duck Stamp after he won a statewide contest for the fifth time.
Clark County has offered higher salary increases to staff affiliated with the Service Employees International Union in its latest offer in negotiations.
The Forest Service will review plans to return a former private lake overlooking Lake Tahoe to a natural meadow with wetlands over the objections of Nevada wildlife officials who say it could be a premier trout fishery.
There could be gold in cannabis in terms of tax revenue if Nevada voters in 2016 ultimately approve the recreational use of marijuana for adults, based on estimates for Oregon and Alaska.
It took 42 years and five trips to the ballot box before Nevada voters agreed to establish an intermediate appellate court. Now state officials are on a fast track to get the court up and running to begin hearing cases as early as January.
Fifty years ago, Bonanza Airlines Flight 114 from Phoenix was on approach to McCarran Field when it slammed into the top of the mountain and tumbled, scattering wreckage across the rocky plateau. The crash killed everyone on board — 29 people doomed by a faulty chart in a freak snow storm.
Nevada Power has asked the state Public Utilities Commission to reconsider its October decision to reject construction of a 200-megawatt solar project on the Moapa River Paiute Indian Reservation.
A marijuana bust in a remote mountain range in northeast Nye County netted $34 million worth of plants, according to estimates from sheriff’s deputies there.
Rep. Joe Heck took himself out of the running for a U.S. Senate race in 2016, saying Thursday it would complicate his duties as a congressman and newly promoted brigadier general in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno was recognized Thursday as the only Nevada hospital that exceeded key quality measures last year related to treatments aimed at increasing the chances for healthy outcomes for its patients.
Republicans passed over Sen. Dean Heller for the job of protecting their new majority in the U.S. Senate.
Pressed by Republicans in Washington to run against Sen. Harry Reid, Gov. Brian Sandoval shrugged off the idea on Wednesday, at least for the time being.
Scientists say a swarm of earthquakes since July in the remote desert linking Oregon, California and Nevada can be traced to the constant stretching of the Earth’s crust.
A state panel voted unanimously Wednesday to approve $782,500 to fund the new state appeals court that is expected to begin operations early next year. Approval came as 36 applicants filed for one of the three new court positions by a 5 p.m. deadline.