Nevada is among the states with the highest sign-up rate for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, according to a new study of the federal initiative that gives temporary protection from deportation to some youths who are in the country illegally.
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Inmate Brian Kakowski, 41, briefly escaped from a northern Nevada corrections facility Tuesday evening, corrections department officials say.
A Clark County jury heard opening remarks Tuesday in the trial of Robert Jackson, who is accused of shooting four people on the Strip in 2007.
Nevada highway officials hope the era of car crashes, injury accidents, road rage and misery on the road to Pahrump is nearing an end.
Gov. Brian Sandoval voted reluctantly to support two contracts with the Xerox Corp. on Tuesday to provide services for the state unclaimed property fund. The contracts are worth $7.8 million over four years.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said Tuesday that negotiations with Tesla to bring its Gigafactory to Northern Nevada are continuing, and as a result, there is no need to call a special session of the Legislature.
A 31-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged in federal court with threatening to kill U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and harm the Nevada lawmaker’s family.
Testing of unmanned aerial vehicles in Nevada has gotten off to a slower start than expected, with the first test flight in April and about $300,000 in revenue from testing collected so far, a state economic development official said Tuesday.
The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a pedestrian who was struck by three vehicles on U.S. Highway 395 south of Gardnerville, including two Douglas County sheriff’s patrol cars.
A Lake Havasu City, Ariz., woman who had numerous sexual encounters with a boy she met through her high school-age children has been sentenced to the Arizona Department of Corrections.
At least one person is dead after a fatal crash in the southeast valley, Las Vegas police said. The crash happened at 2:38 p.m. near Russell Road and Annie Oakley Drive.
Stephens Media, the parent company of the Review-Journal, spent six figures preparing to defend itself against a federal lawsuit filed by Las Vegas Sun owner Brian Greenspun.
A 71-year-old inmate died Saturday at the Regional Medical Facility at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City of a chronic medical condition, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
SALT LAKE CITY — Federal investigators say a small plane that crashed in northwestern Arizona last month while carrying two teenagers from Clinton, Utah, was flying in a very windy canyon.
The Clark County School District has requested temporary licenses for new teachers who need time to meet state requirements, as was allowed last school year. No more, the state responded.