Wildfires are still a major risk a year after the Carpenter 1 fire burned 27,800 acres on Mount Charleston and people are urged to adhere to fire prevention rules to avoid being the cause of another such blaze, officials said Tuesday.
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A federal judge has declined to reconsider a lawsuit alleging that officials at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas violated a patient’s civil rights by giving him a bus ticket to California upon discharge.
As a small group of Filipino-American patriots watched from Las Vegas, lawmakers said in Washington Tuesday that they were ‘astounded’ and angry that a program set up to benefit Filipino soldiers who fought alongside Americans in World War II denied payments to more than half the applicants.
The Nevada Supreme Court issued an order late Tuesday temporarily suspending a Las Vegas defense lawyer who pleaded guilty in a high-profile courthouse counseling scheme.
More than 250 construction jobs are coming to North Las Vegas as the city and the Regional Transportation Commission announced $18.3 million worth of transportation improvement projects Tuesday.
Six months after federal unemployment checks were cut off for more than a million Americans, two senators launched a new bid on Tuesday to renew payments to people still unable to find work.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada and two of her colleagues on the House Veterans Affairs Committee proposed a bill this week to create 2,000 residency programs at VA facilities in Las Vegas and elsewhere to curb a shortage of doctors.
Lingering drought is taking a toll on wildlife across Northern Nevada, shrinking deer herds on the high desert, drying up fisheries in the valleys and starting to push everything from bears to snakes into urban neighborhoods they normally don’t frequent.
The Peppermill Casino in Reno has joined the online poker room operated by Ultimate Gaming.
On her first official visit to Nellis Air Force Base, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James said Monday she will stress to her colleagues in Washington what she heard from local airmen: Don’t let automatic budget cuts under sequestration happen again.
KINGMAN, Ariz. – A local man died in a single-vehicle crash early Monday.
Two people who died in a plane crash near Echo Bay airport in the Lake Mead area on June 12 have been identified.
A two-vehicle crash claimed a life Monday in Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Republican Attorney General candidate Adam Laxalt has been endorsed by 15 out of 17 county sheriffs in Nevada, his campaign announced Monday, giving him a law enforcement edge over his Democratic opponent Ross Miller.
Who is Lucy Flores? Nevada voters watching the World Cup on Spanish-language TV are about to find out. Assemblywoman Flores, D-Las Vegas, on Monday launched her first TV campaign ad in her bid to become lieutenant governor.