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It took more than 60 years to win designation, but it’s not hard to see why Great Basin finally became Nevada’s first — and so far only — National Park in 1986. The 77,000-acre reserve is home to the state’s oldest trees, its most famous and ornate cave, its only glacier and its second tallest peak.
Come Tuesday, some mental health service improvements recently approved by the state will be rolled out in Southern Nevada. Others will be introduced in the coming months, state officials said Thursday.
The U.S. Senate voted last week to reauthorize more than 30 job training programs while scrapping 15 others and changing the way many train people and help them find jobs.
Long before the Mob trolled the Strip, a small corner of Nevada had its own underground economy.
A months-long search by U.S. Harry Reid and his Nevada Democratic Party failed to find a credible candidate willing to lose to Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Cindy Sherwood has waited years for a half-built project she can’t see, but she’s happy that the wastewater pipeline eventually will get rid of her North Las Vegas neighborhood’s problem with pesky midges.
Despite overall numbers in the tens of thousands, the wild horse is on the verge of going extinct in North America for the second time in 13,000 years and deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act, mustang advocates say.
A creepy, cannibalistic bug that infested much of Northern Nevada nine years ago might be making another drought-related assault on the state.
The Labor Department will award a $230,000 grant to the U.S. Vets site in Las Vegas for employment and training services for homeless veterans.
U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford of Nevada is traveling to the southern border of Texas on Saturday to be briefed by federal officials on the flood of children entering the country, and to tour a holding facility where a number of them are being held.
A Nevada Supreme Court panel has upheld the firing of a state Highway Patrol trooper for failing to disclose a 1995 incident during which illegal steroids were confiscated at the Mexico-U.S. border.
A man already awaiting trial on murder charges has been indicted on a dozen other charges in an unrelated robbery, prosecutors said Friday.
A bouncer at a Las Vegas business set up to squeeze money out of men who thought they were paying for sex was ordered to serve five years probation Friday.
Nevada gaming revenue jumped 8.11 percent in May, which included the Las Vegas Strip’s largest single-month increase this year. Strip casinos collected almost $593 million, a 17.3 percent increase compared to May 2013.
Family Court Judge William Gonzalez did not abuse his discretion when he approved a mother’s out-of-state move with her child, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
