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?
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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?
A Las Vegas woman was arrested Thursday for her alleged participation in the U.S. Capitol riot after the 2020 presidential election.
Where’s the outrage? Strip giant stands up to extortion — and ends up under federal investigation.
Legislation that would allow mining companies to use public land regardless of whether mineral deposits have been found on the land passed the House and will head to the Senate.
President Donald Trump sent a defiant letter to House Democrats, even as a top committee chairman said the State Department was obstructing the ongoing impeachment inquiry into the president’s conduct.
A day after President Donald Trump threatened to “ruin the economy of Turkey” if it goes too far with a planned invasion of northern Syria, he announced on Tuesday that he’s invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House.
A seemingly divided Supreme Court is considering whether federal civil rights law protects LGBT people from job discrimination.
The Nevada Democratic Party on Monday announced a list of 72 sites around the state where voters can cast their ballots in the 2020 caucus during a four-day period in February.
The U.S. economy is in its 11th year of expansion, the longest on record.
The council scheduled closed consultations Tuesday on recent North Korean tests at the request of the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Open enrollment on the Nevada Health Link exchange runs from Nov. 1 through Dec. 15. In the meantime, consumers are encouraged to “window shop” the varied plans on the exchange.
The Trump White House hunkered down Monday as Democrats continued to issue subpoenas for the House impeachment inquiry and a federal judge supported a New York prosecutor’s efforts to obtain eight years of Trump tax returns.
A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump’s challenge to the release of eight years of his tax returns for a New York state criminal probe, saying on Monday that he could not grant such a “categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity.”
The justices are returning to the Supreme Court bench for the start of an election year term that includes high-profile cases about abortions, protections for young immigrants and LGBT rights.