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.
If early voting turnout is any indication, Tuesday’s primary election day could be one of the busiest in recent memory, Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said.
Conservationists are asking the White House Council on Environmental Quality to put the brakes on plans to allow a popular off-road, desert race from near Las Vegas to Reno to run through a newly established national monument in Southern Nevada.
Democratic leader Harry Reid says he wishes he could stay in the U.S. Senate forever.
Members of the dance group Brothers are Radically Superb (BARS) don’t want to be in a gang, so they choose dance. “Not everyone has to face that kind of a decision,” said Rachel Aston, a Las Vegas Review-Journal visual journalist who took home an Emmy on Saturday night for her video, “Brothers Are Radically Superb.”
A marijuana expert from Colorado told business leaders here on Friday that after that state legalized recreational use of the drug in 2012, workplace incidents of employees under the influence rose from 6 percent to 20 percent in the following year.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man found dead Wednesday on a pedestrian bridge in Laughlin.
Southern Nevada’s business community is pushing to speed construction of Interstate 11 between Las Vegas and Phoenix.
The Bureau of Land Management has announced a venue change for one of its upcoming planning meetings for Basin and Range National Monument, 115 miles north of Las Vegas.
On Thursday, a federal appeals court in California ruled that Americans do not have a constitutional right to carry concealed weapons in public. Here’s what some current and former Nevada elected officials had to say about the 9th Circuit’s decision:
You’re filthy. You’re a disease. You’re a dump. No, these aren’t things your average bully said to a would-be victim, these are unprovoked comments entertainment giant Disney aimed at Pahrump.
Nevada has regained nearly all of the 175,000 jobs lost during the Great Recession and should fully recover later this year, a state economist told the Economic Forum on Thursday.
The last two years have marked the lowest attendance in at least a decade at Hoover Dam, with just over 720,000 paid visitors in 2015 and fewer than 696,000 in 2014.
