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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.
The North Las Vegas VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas is one of the few places in the Department of Veterans Affairs where feet, ankles, legs, hands, wrists and arms are made from scratch and fitted to perfection.
An Amber Alert is in place for a 2-year-old boy from Los Angeles, Calif., according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
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 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.
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.
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.
RENO — A wildfire burning in the mountain wilderness above Reno for nearly a week is all but out.
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.
Cash-strapped North Las Vegas plans to press ahead with state legislative fixes for its money woes, up to and including a bill that would allow Nevada cities to declare bankruptcy, Mayor John Lee said Thursday.
A former Henderson mayoral candidate has filed a petition with the Nevada Supreme Court asking for the removal of Mayor Andy Hafen from office because of term limits.
With a recommendation on the table to alter Nevada’s education funding formula to increase spending on at-risk pupils, a state panel was told Thursday that the next step will be to determine the financial ramifications of such a change on Nevada’s 17 school districts.
A panel of state officials and educators on Wednesday recommended a significant change to how Nevada allocates public education dollars to account for the challenges of educating students in poverty and those who are not fluent in English.
Henderson has large land it would like to sell, yet the city is struggling to find buyers. The latest failure came Tuesday when it received no bids for three parcels in a planned industrial district near Interstate 15.
The Clark County Election Department has trained 488 bilingual Hispanics and 138 bilingual Filipinos to be poll workers during early voting that starts Saturday and on Election Day, June 10.
