Nearly 12,000 acres of public land, including Strawberry Creek at Great Basin National Park, receive flora from the heavens in Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada Department of Wildlife operation.
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Alicia Coronado, hit while crossing Owens Avenue near Nellis Boulevard, is seventh traffic-related fatality investigated by Metro police this year.
Anticipating a battle in the upcoming trial against six associates of rancher Cliven Bundy, federal prosecutors this week asked a judge to prohibit defense attorneys from referencing a wide range of material that is central to defense strategy in the case.
Police investigated abandoned rental car two weeks before body of 24-year-old Matthew V. Legino of Omaha was discovered.
A ski patrol member was killed Tuesday in an accident involving explosives used to artificially trigger an avalanche at a Lake Tahoe ski resort, resort officials said.
A Las Vegas woman who used cleaning solution and glitter pens to increase the apparent value of small U.S. bank notes pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges of counterfeiting and mail theft.
Southern Nevadans’ credit scores improved faster than the national average last year, but their overall ratings still trailed most of the country.
The naked man who was fatally shot by a Las Vegas police officer at a Jean resort had stabbed himself several times before the officer arrived at the scene, a Metropolitan Police Department official said Tuesday.
Another nearly 3 feet of new snow fell on Sierra Nevada ski resorts — for a total of 23 feet since Jan. 1 in some places — and Reno recorded one of its snowiest days in 80 years Monday as skies began to clear and sunshine followed the latest in a series of winter storms into the region.
The Metropolitan Police Department on Monday released the identities of a knife-wielding nude man and the police officer who shot him over the weekend at a Jean hotel-casino.
Looming over the upcoming legislative session is the big unknown of whether Congress will repeal the Affordable Care Act and what it would mean for Nevada.
A study of autonomous driving technology will use electric buses in Reno, Sparks and Carson City.
Wanted: health care professionals, no medical degree required. That’s the pitch for a new UNLV School of Medicine program that aims to fill “a vital gap” in the health care system
Gov. Brian Sandoval wants a special tax on recreational marijuana sales to boost his budget, but state lawmakers and industry executives are concerned that his proposal might be too high.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is pursuing creative solutions to a potential prison overcrowding challenge that could see capacity exceeded by 700 inmates by the end of the next budget without prompt action.