The Senate continued to stumble last week, failing to make progress on bills that would cut taxes and encourage energy efficiency.
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Sen. Dean Heller last year added 147 acres to his Smith Valley ranch, expanding the family homestead on which he also grows alfalfa for harvest, according to newly filed Senate documents.
Abused and neglected children are staying longer and showing up in greater numbers at a Clark County-run emergency shelter, causing it to surpass its licensed capacity and raising concerns among child welfare advocates who question what’s behind the trend.
April employment growth pushes Nevada jobless rate down to 8 percent; Las Vegas at 7.4 percent
Top leaders of the Department of Veterans Affairs are failing to hold agency officials in Nevada accountable for flaws and shortcomings in providing service to local veterans, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., charged Thursday.
Lawmakers holding out thin hope that Congress will resurrect benefits that expired five months ago for long-term jobless workers are heading back to the drawing board. An unemployment bill the Senate passed last month is set to expire on June 1.
Nearly 5,000 students have spoken and the third medallion for Nevada’s sesquicentennial will feature three iconic images: the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, the Reno Arch and “Wendover Will.” The design was unveiled Wednesday by the Nevada 150 Commission.
Scott Craigie, who was chief of staff to former Nevada Gov. Bob Miller, died on Tuesday.
The Colorado River could spill into the Gulf of California’s tidewater channel during high tide Thursday, which would be the first time in 20 years that the Colorado has reached the sea.
The Senate began debate Tuesday on a bill to renew more than 50 tax breaks for individuals and businesses, including a handful with particular resonance in Nevada and a new one that could be worth millions on the Strip.
A Nevada seventh-grader who went on a deadly schoolyard shooting rampage had images of the Columbine gunmen on his cellphone and told a therapist three days before the October attack that classmates were teasing him, authorities said Tuesday.
Edna Purviance was just a girl from Paradise Valley when Charlie Chaplin strolled into Tate’s Cafe in San Francisco and started talking.
CARSON CITY – A right-of-way dispute over 3 acres of land needed for the Boulder City bypass has been settled for “substantially less” than the last $33 million offer from the landowner, a state transportation official said Monday.
The director of the Bureau of Land Management said Monday that lawbreakers will be “held accountable” as the agency pursues a new plan to enforce court orders against Southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy for illegally grazing cattle on public land.
In what likely was their final debate, GOP lieutenant governor candidates Sue Lowden and Mark Hutchison clashed heatedly Monday over her $600,000 in unpaid campaign debts and his votes to implement Obamacare as a Nevada-run exchange despite his opposition to the health care insurance law.