One of the two people killed Friday morning in a crash on state Route 164 near Searchlight has been identified as Robert Smith, 43, of El Monte, California.
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Two minimum-security inmates walked away from a firefighting camp on Sunday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
To critics of the federal effort to entomb the nation’s most potent radioactive material in Yucca Mountain, the newly released book, “Waste of a Mountain,” snubs the Nevada congressional delegation’s 30-year opposition to haul and bury the nation’s spent nuclear fuel in a maze of tunnels 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Republicans are taking the lessons they learned from the past three presidential elections and putting them to use in Nevada and elsewhere in 2016.
Conversations in Swahili and Spanish filled the hall of Our Lady of Las Vegas church on Friday afternoon as refugees and their families gathered for a day of celebration.
Two years after withdrawing from the Gold Butte area amid a 2014 standoff with the Bundy family, the federal government is moving back into the expansive stretch of desert 110 miles east of Las Vegas.
Nevada Democratic leaders continued to denounce Donald Trump on Friday, a day before the presumptive presidential nominee’s schedule rally in Las Vegas.
Two people were killed and six others injured in a Friday morning rollover crash on eastbound state Route 164 west of Searchlight, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
The Regional Transportation Commission is reporting the Sloan on-ramp at Interstate 15 is has reopened after it was closed for just less than an hour Friday because of a crash.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto says she’ll debate Republican opponent Joe Heck, provided at least one debate is on a Spanish television station.
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid might not be running this cycle, but he scored a broad victory in the Nevada primary on Tuesday when congressional candidates he supported — state Sen. Ruben Kihuen and synagogue leader Jacky Rosen — landed decisive wins.
The Nevada secretary of state found no evidence of wrongdoing by four political action committees overseen by state Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson.
With a sigh of relief, incumbent Felicia Ortiz put her hand over her chest and looked up from a laptop. The screen showed she was the leader in the State Board of Education District 3 race. She finished the night with 46.3 percent of primary election votes with 100 percent of precincts reporting.
The attorney general’s office Tuesday asked the Nevada Supreme Court to postpone oral arguments in the highly watched school choice case because the state’s hired legal counsel will be out of the country on July 8.
A man found dead along a dirt road in Death Valley National Park on Thursday has been identified as Reinhard Egger, 60, of Germany.