Elko County commissioners have passed an ordinance banning medical marijuana dispensaries from unincorporated areas of the Northern Nevada county.
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The turnout for early voting in the 2014 primary election was the lowest it has been in years, according to the Nevada secretary of state’s office.
A state judge has ordered an opponent of Republican state Sen. Ben Kieckhefer of Reno to pull a TV ad that says the incumbent supported Democratic U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in his 2010 race against Republican Sharron Angle.
In celebration of National Trails Day this Saturday, the U.S. Forest Service is giving valley hikers an opportunity to help restore two Lee Canyon trails.
A Nevada company that makes equipment to manage power supplies for computer data centers has won a $10.7 million judgment in a 7-year-old patent infringement case.
RENO — The Nevada Board of Regents voted Friday to re-elect Kevin Page of Las Vegas as the board’s chairman and Rick Trachok of Reno as its vice chairman.
Scientists are hailing the return of a threatened fish to its home spawning grounds in Nevada for the first time in 76 years.
Officers with a Southern Nevada cannabis enforcement squad arrested a Henderson man in connection with a marijuana grow house on Thursday.
Debate over Nevada public land flared anew on Friday when U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada warned President Barack Obama against designating a national monument in the Gold Butte region of Clark County.
Preston Emerson, accused of shooting four people outside a Las Vegas hookah lounge, killing one, will spend the weekend in jail while attornyes sort out who should represent him in court.
Anyone hoping to soak in the warm water of Ash Springs will need to wait for at least two more years, the Bureau of Land Management announced Friday.
Except for the homegrown variety and a few coming through Las Vegas to raise money, politicians will be rare during summer 2016.
The correct pronunciation is “Nuh-VAD-uh.” It’s a Spanish word with an American accent meaning “snowcapped,” named after the Sierra Nevada.
For nearly six years, authorities have searched for a woman connected with the poisoning death of a Reno businessman, but she has finally been arrested in Peru, federal authorities said Thursday.
Former Carson City Mayor Marvin Teixeira has died after a lengthy illness.