An employee at a Reno science museum has been placed on leave after firefighters concluded her error during a tornado demonstration led to a flash fire that injured 13 people.
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A Kingman, Ariz., man who used his Cadillac to run over and kill another Kingman man in November 2011 was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday.
Shortly before 8-year-old Isabella Grogan-Cannella was reported missing Tuesday, she was playing hide-and-seek with the family friend now charged in her disappearance and death.
The state’s public college campuses plan to continue to ban pot even as Nevada is moving toward opening its first medical marijuana dispensaries early next year, the Board of Regents indicated Thursday.
Gov. Brian Sandoval will ask state lawmakers next week to approve a deal to bring a Tesla battery plant to Nevada that will result in essentially no taxes being collected from the electric car manufacturer for nearly a decade.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed Thursday that the United States could become the “clean energy superpower” of the world if the nation and states such as Nevada lead in developing renewable energy sources from solar, wind and geothermal power.
A woman killed in a single-vehicle traffic accident in Kingman, Ariz., was identified Thursday as 27-year-old Sylvia Nicole Sutterfield.
A flash fire that injured 13 people at a Nevada science museum happened when an employee applied the chemicals in the wrong order during a tabletop demonstration about the mechanics of tornadoes, officials said Thursday.
Mount Charleston has provided an idyllic setting for Gov. Brian Sandoval to show his concern for beleaguered mountain residents and remind Southern Nevadans that the Republican incumbent is attuned to their needs.
More than 100 personnel are searching Wednesday for an 8-year-old girl who is missing from her home in Bullhead City, Ariz. Police said the investigation of Isabella Grogan-Cannella’s disappearance is now considered a criminal matter.
A minor explosion during a science experiment at a children’s museum in Reno has burned at least six children and forced the evacuation of the museum.
A federal judge intends to decide next week whether to block the release of oil and gas leases in Nevada that critics say will be used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and cause more environmental harm than the Bureau of Land Management admits.
In their first debate, the top two candidates for lieutenant governor on Wednesday clashed over taxes, education, immigration, gay marriage and health care as well as the best way to boost Nevada’s recovering economy.
A man accused of a string of five robberies in the northeast valley was indicted Wednesday by a Clark County grand jury.