A California-based biofuel company building a plant east of Reno has been awarded a $70 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to help speed delivery of its high-tech process that converts household garbage into jet fuel.
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Reno teenagers are among a generation of young climbers looking to scale the ranks in the sport of speed climbing, which has existed in various forms since the 1940s but didn’t enter the mainstream until about 50 years later.
A ranch house that was disassembled in Virginia City and reconstructed in 1903 in the Mason Valley about 80 miles southeast of Reno has been added to the Nevada State Register of Historic Places.
Public health officials are warning Moapa Valley residents about the potential for an increase in mosquitoes as a result of Sept. 8 flash flooding that swamped houses and destroyed a stretch of Interstate 15.
A man suffered critical injuries and another man was arrested Saturday morning after an east valley rollover, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas book publisher Carolyn Hayes Uber, described as a feisty bookworm who was dedicated to her grandkids, died Sunday after a five-year battle with leukemia. She was 66.
Boulder City has been waiting years for a promised high school makeover, only to be told time and again to wait and make do with a 1945 campus, but there may be hope.
Q: I am having trouble finding a tree to replace ash trees. I want something that doesn’t grow so tall and does well in our climate. We took out our ash trees because they were giant and the roots were all at the surface. I am now guessing we have a soil issue. True?
The Clark County School District counted 318,597 students on Friday, marking the third-consecutive record year for its official enrollment.
A Las Vegas jury awarded $16 million Friday to the families of two married couples who died in a December 2011 helicopter crash near Lake Mead.
The man who was shot dead Thursday morning at an apartment complex near Decatur Boulevard and Vegas Drive was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Friday.
Las Vegas and Henderson police and the Drug Enforcement Administration agents found a full-functioning marijuana lab when they searched and dismantled a southwest valley house Thursday, according to an arrest report. The joint task force found the grow house in the 6200 block of West Levi Avenue, near South Jones Boulevard and Cactus Avenue, after getting an anonymous tip, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas police have arrested two people suspected in a series of violent armed robberies, the department announced Friday.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the motorcyclist who died in Thursday night’s crash in North Las Vegas.
Some students at a North Las Vegas elementary school were kept nearly two hours late after SWAT investigated a “domestic issue” nearby earlier in the day. Tartan Elementary School, on East Tropical Parkway near North Pecos Road, went on lockdown about 1:30 p.m., said Clark County School District police Lt. Ken Young.
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Elementary, middle and high school students will see changes to what time of day their classes will begin and end. The change is aimed to improve academic and health outcomes among students.
A day after a thrilling College Football Playoff national championship Monday night in Miami, officials already shifted their focus to Las Vegas for the 2027 edition of the mega event.
Las Vegas police detectives are asking about payments to the wife of the CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Nevada.
A plethora of festive spectators dotted Fourth Street as more than 200 groups marched, danced or rolled through downtown Las Vegas.
