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.
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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.
“Just do it for Dave” is what Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Dave Callen told potential participants before a Saturday event that was part of the 40th annual Nevada Police & Fire Games.
The average surface temperature of Lake Tahoe has risen faster over the last four years than any time on record — 15 times faster than the long-term warming rate over the past half century, scientists say.
In an angry telephone interview Friday, Joshua Cluff, whose home was targeted in the July 13 bomb attack in Panaca, said Glenn Franklin Jones never made a threat or uttered a harsh word to him in the years they knew each other.
The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles is partnering with State Farm Insurance to help parents supervise their teen drivers and prepare them for a lifetime of safe driving.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence plans his first visit to Nevada next week as Donald Trump’s running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
More than 200 firefighters are battling the largest of a series of lightning-sparked fires north of Reno that are threatening dozens of homes and prompted some voluntary evacuations.
The city of Sparks and its insurance company have agreed to pay a woman who was shot by police $400,000 in connection to the incident.
If there’s anything supporters and critics of school choice can agree on, it’s the likelihood that a pair of state Supreme Court hearings on Friday will have an impact on public education beyond Nevada’s borders.
Six Nevada hospitals have earned one star and two have earned four stars in a controversial five-star rating system unveiled Wednesday morning by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
After flash flooding caused extensive damage and closure last fall, Badwater Road is now fully open, connecting Death Valley National Park to the gateway town of Shoshone, California.
Scientists following up on a rare wolverine sighting in the Sierra Nevada set up cameras and captured video of the animal scurrying in the snow, scaling a tree and chewing on bait.
All across the Silver State, old-time saloons such as the Manhattan bar are stubborn holdouts from another era; many established a century or more ago in the region’s gold-and-silver boom days.
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