Firefighters continued to make progress on a half-dozen wildfires in Northern Nevada, but crews feared gusty winds blowing in from the Pacific Ocean could fan flames that forced evacuations earlier on tribal lands near Pyramid Lake north of Reno.
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Nevada soldiers accustomed to 110-plus degree summer days had their minds melted on July 21, in Mitribah, Kuwait, when the temperature topped out at 129.2 degrees.
Justices of the peace from outer-lying Clark County communities objected Tuesday to what they called a break with a more than decade-long practice of tying their base salaries to a percentage of what their counterparts in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson earn.
A new poll finding nearly half of Nevada voters — and more than two-thirds of those from wealthier households — support the state’s education savings accounts didn’t surprise defenders or opponents of the controversial program.
A Navy pilot has safely ejected from a fighter jet that crashed in the Northern Nevada desert during a training mission near the Fallon Naval Air Station on Tuesday.
Guy Seeklus owns nearly 30 camels. About half of those live on his new ranch in Bunkerville, where he operates the recently opened Camel Safari.
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence on Monday defended running mate Donald Trump’s controversial comments about Capt. Humayun Khan, who died from a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2004, and called Khan an American hero.
A month after the U.S. Department of Justice found the Nevada Department of Corrections discriminated against inmates with HIV and disabilities, officials removed a medical code from its computer system that could reveal a prisoner’s HIV-positive status to unauthorized staffers.
Several lightning-sparked wildfires grew in grasslands and brush in northern Nevada on Monday, where officials said about 800 firefighters were trying to contain a 78-square-mile fire near a tribal town and rural hamlets west of Pyramid Lake.
The U.S. Geological Survey says two magnitude 3.1 earthquakes recently shook the Reno area.
Today, 33 percent of Nevada legislators are women, ranking Nevada fifth among states for women representation in state legislatures.
Sheriffs in most Nevada counties have come out against a background check initiative that gun control advocates are supporting on the ballot this November, but the top cop in the largest police agency in the state says he’ll sit this one out.
About 40 homes were threatened earlier Friday but voluntary evacuations were lifted later in the day, and no homes faced any imminent danger by Friday evening, interagency fire spokesman Mark Struble said.
The entire Nevada Supreme Court recused itself from hearing an appeal between a lender and a developer because of ties the developer has to another company building a new courthouse in Las Vegas.
It could be a week, two weeks or months before the Nevada Supreme Court issues its rulings on two constitutional challenges to a school choice law seen as the most ambitious school choice law in the nation.