WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu said today the proposed Yucca Mountain site in Nevada no longer is an option for storing highly radioactive nuclear waste, brushing aside criticism from several Republican lawmakers.
Hundreds of Hondurans and Nicaraguans living in Nevada are set to lose their temporary protective status.
Dozens of federal officers and about 90 members of the California National Guard were deployed to a mostly empty park in a L.A. neighborhood with a large immigrant population.
Several Republicans kicked off a Nevada legislative panel meeting Monday with grievances about its partisan balance, extending a fight from the end of the 2025 Legislative Session.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus has introduced legislation that she said “will bring fairness back to gaming taxation.”
The disclosure by U.S. lawyer Jonathan Guynn contradicts statements by spokespeople for the Justice Department and the White House.
Experts say the riparian area along the Las Vegas Wash is resilient and any habitat loss likely to be short-lived following the latest of four fires in the area.
His moves have raised fears that economic growth would slow to a trickle, if not make the U.S. and other nations more vulnerable to a recession.
Elon Musk said he’s carrying out his threat to form a new political party after his fissure with President Donald Trump, announcing the America Party in response to the president’s sweeping tax cuts law.
Authorities overseeing the search for flood victims in Texas said they will wait to address questions about weather warnings and why some summer camps did not evacuate ahead of the catastrophic flooding.
A total of 1,131 crash-related deaths occurred on Southern Nevada roads between 2019 and 2023.
