Las Vegas police identified 16 victims of sex trafficking, eight of them minors, during operations for the “National Day of Johns Arrests” sting.
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Gov. Brian Sandoval on Thursday announced that starting Monday, Mari Nakashima St. Martin will join his office as communications director. St. Martin currently serves as communications director with Sandoval’s re-election campaign.
Volunteers joined Nevada wildlife officials this week in a rescue mission to save thousands of stranded trout and other fish from irrigation ditches that have been cut off from Truckee River water supplies due to drought in the Reno area.
Judith Nies doesn’t leave the environmental optimists and desert daydreamers among us much room for hope in her new book, “Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa and the Fate of the West.”
A Nye County sheriff’s candidate faces a criminal charge after removing political campaign signs in April, the Nevada Attorney General’s office announced Wednesday.
A central Nevada ranching family facing a $1 million judgment in a wrongful death case has received a reprieve.
A woman who ran from Utah law enforcement and whose ensuing chase temporarily shut down a stretch of Interstate 15 near Mesquite faces criminal charges, according to a police report.
Getting to the Grand Canyon Skywalk used to include a teeth-chattering drive over a washboard road fraught with dips and twists, but motorists will now have a smoother drive to the Hualapai Tribe’s most popular tourist destination because Diamond Bar Road is paved.
Convicted former power broker Harvey Whittemore surrendered Wednesday at a federal prison camp in Lompoc, Calif., to start serving a two-year sentence for breaking campaign contributions laws, his lawyers confirmed.
Newly confirmed Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald will attend Saturday’s Disabled American Veterans national convention at Bally’s Las Vegas and make his first address to the veterans service community.
A panel of Nevada lawmakers on Tuesday voted to draft legislation that would reduce the reliance on student test performance for a new teacher evaluation system from 50 percent to 40 percent.
A Nevada prisoner died Monday after having a chronic medical condition, Nevada Department of Corrections officials say.
Amateur footage shot after an afternoon downpour north of Las Vegas captures the power of flash flood waters.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will build an outpatient clinic in Pahrump, members of Nevada’s congressional delegation said Tuesday.
Authorities are investigating why a paddle-wheel boat ran aground in Lake Tahoe on Monday afternoon, prompting rescuers to evacuate about 300 people aboard.