A lawsuit filed Tuesday by Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt and joined by 20 other states challenges the legality of new overtime rules implemented by the Obama administration and scheduled to take effect Dec. 1.
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The surface level of the Lake Mohave reservoir will drop 7 feet during the next few weeks to allow conservation officials to harvest razorback sucker fish from shoreline rearing ponds.
About 300 business leaders, academics and government officials are meeting Tuesday through Thursday to make the 450 miles between Las Vegas and Reno feel shorter.
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area will be free to visit Saturday for National Public Lands Day.
The Oregon standoff trial entered its second week with a fish biologist testifying that occupiers left her office at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge “completely trashed.”
A Nevada woman has been sentenced to up to six years in prison for neglect causing the death of her 93-year-old grandmother, whose feet were gnawed by rodents before she died in her trash-filled, urine-stained home.
Heavy-duty prescription painkillers like hydrocodone and OxyContin are a big part of medicine in Nevada, with doctors prescribing them at a rate that nearly reached one per person last year.
The owner of Reno’s oldest cemetery is suspending plans to disinter the bodies of some of the city’s earliest settlers.
In 1977, when U.S. Highway 50 was still the road less traveled, just another anonymous stretch of asphalt traversing the American West, Denys Koyle’s life took an unpredictable turn.
When Carl Graves realized this spring that he and his roommate no longer could afford their Las Vegas apartment, the 44-year-old pictured himself living on the streets again, as he’d done on and off since 2010.
Thousands of fans attending the National Championship Air Races in Reno this weekend include members of a Kansas family who were there five years ago when a horrific crash killed several people.
James Duett, 38, was found unresponsive on the floor of his cell at about 6:20 a.m. Tuesday, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said.
A 34-year-old woman whose body was found buried in a remote area in northeast Nevada had been reported missing by her boyfriend more than three weeks ago.
Congress is moving closer to spending hundreds of millions of dollars on Lake Tahoe, just two weeks after President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned plea about the link between its economy and environment.
The Moapa Band of Paiute Indians will soon see the third solar power plant developed on its reservation in Clark County, as the tribe continues to pioneer renewable energy generation on tribal lands.