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Booze and busker battle underway in downtown Las Vegas

The Las Vegas City Council’s version of the blame game went on for three hours last week, as the big boys and the little guys argued over who is to blame for the drunken follies occurring at the Fremont Street Experience.

State-federal effort ID’s forest thinning priorities in NV

Ten areas in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada have been selected as top priorities for projects to combat damage from insects and disease that increases the wildfire risk.

VA approves more private care for veterans

More veterans are being allowed to obtain health care at private hospitals and clinics in an effort to improve their treatment following allegations of falsified records and delays in treatment.

GOP congressional candidates debate in shadow of early voting

During their last GOP primary debate Friday on the eve of early voting, Assemblyman Cresent Hardy changed his mind about Obamacare, Niger Innis regretted not voting enough and they both supported Bundy.

Nevada active voters list grows to more than 1.1 million

More than 1.1 million Nevadans are registered as active voters for the June 10 primary election following the close of registration on Tuesday. In all, 6,608 Nevadans registered to vote since the end of April.

In this election, bedfellows make for strange politics

On the campaign trail, Republican lieutenant governor candidate Sue Lowden touts her decades in business as a casino executive to show she’s more qualified for the job of promoting tourism and economic development than her GOP opponent Mark Hutchison, an attorney and state senator.

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Mountain lion spotted near Reno shopping mall

A mountain lion spotted near Reno’s Meadowood Mall on Wednesday night could still be in the area, state wildlife officials said.

O.J. Simpson files appeal in Palace Station robbery case

O.J. Simpson is asking the Nevada Supreme Court to reverse a judge’s ruling denying him a new trial in a 2007 robbery case, in an appeal filed in the wee hours Thursday.

Man given 56-year prison term in deadly Utah-Nevada crime rampage

A man who authorities say went on a crime rampage that spanned two states and left a Utah couple dead has been sentenced to up to 56 years in Nevada for a kidnapping, robbery and botched carjacking at a casino.

Anti-bullying video dropped after Sparks shooting

The Washoe County School District has discontinued the use of an anti-bullying video that was shown to students at Sparks Middle School, including the 12-year-old gunman who went on a fatal schoolyard shooting rampage in the weeks after he watched it.

BLM sells $18 million worth of land in Southern Nevada

The Bureau of Land Management sold more than $18 million in public land in Southern Nevada on Thursday. The money earned from Nevada’s public land sales will go towards purposes such as parks, trails and the purchase of environmentally sensitive land.

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