Anais Thomassain, A.K.A. Penny Pibbets in "Absinthe," shown performing at a CD release party with her band, Fish Circus, on Monday at Artifice. The band, a mix of punk rock and ethereal, is a side project for Thomassain, who's "Absinthe" character serves as an assisstant to show host The Gazillionaire. The band also performed Sunday night at the Beauty Bar. (Photo courtesy of Tony Tightropes).
Plans to turn Yucca Mountain into the nation’s nuclear waste repository have long received opposition from both sides of the aisle. But, is that changing?
Farmers have shown overwhelming interest in getting paid to retire rights to pump groundwater in rural Nevada. Could a state-run program save the water below us?
Debates and protests sparked by Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip have worked their way into seemingly every corner in the world — even the free-spirited desert festival in Nevada known as Burning Man.
Swiss singer Nemo won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest Saturday night
Ilya Tarshansky, a survivor of the Oct. 7 surprise Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, spoke to an audience of about 100 people at the Folsom Community Center on Thursday.
A European naval force detained six suspected pirates on Friday after they opened fire on an oil tanker traveling through the Gulf of Aden, officials said.
Israel ordered new evacuations in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Saturday, forcing tens of thousands more people to leave as it prepared to expand its military operation.
Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian terrorists on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left aid crossings inaccessible, U.N. officials said.
While Friday’s resolution gives Palestine some new rights and privileges, it reaffirms that it remains a non-member observer state without full U.N. membership and the right to vote in the General Assembly or at any of its conferences.
Hundreds of unsealed court documents reveal the contentious custody battle between Ashley Prince and Dennis Houston leading up to a fatal shooting in April.
