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.
The lawsuit was brought by nearly 200 congressional Democrats led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York.
The free flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is of international importance.
Social service providers can’t explain why the Southern Nevada Homeless Census found fewer homeless this year, but say that contradicts what they see from the trenches.
Joe Biden, the former vice president, outpaced all his Democratic rivals for the 2020 presidential nomination in Nevada fundraising in the second quarter of 2019.
Senate Republicans on Friday filed a lawsuit in Carson City seeking to invalidate two bills passed by the 2019 Legislature.
Jim Dzurenda, director of the state department of corrections, has resigned, and the state will conduct a national search for his replacement.
Friday’s vote authorized UNLV acting President Marta Meana to move forward on the plan to sell $125 million in bonds issued by NSHE to build the 140,000-square-foot building.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto wants legislation to increase transparency in Small Business Administration loans to would-be franchise owners so they better understand the risks of borrowing.
The U.S. government on Friday expanded its policy requiring asylum seekers to wait outside the country to one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities, where thousands of people are already camped.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it has seized a British oil tanker that was passing through the Strait of Hormuz.