The asphalt runway stretches for a mile on Yucca Flat, deep in the Nevada National Security Site about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
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A former Bullhead City police sergeant convicted of raping a 21-year-old woman who was his criminal justice student at a local community college has been sentenced to the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Washoe County sheriff’s detectives have arrested a Reno-area woman suspected of stabbing and bludgeoning her dog to death to avoid having to pay veterinary fees to euthanize the animal.
It’s off to the races Monday as filing opens for candidates for four Clark County Commission seats.
Calling her crime “incredibly unfathomable,” a judge on Thursday sentenced Michelle Paet to life in prison without the possibility of parole for orchestrating a plot that left her husband, Nathan Paet, dying in his blood-soaked Air Force fatigues in front of their four children.
Members of Nevada’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Thursday that they hope will fast-track the XpressWest project to provide high-speed passenger rail service between Las Vegas and Southern California with stops in Victorville and Palmdale.
Fourteen more people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas in connection with the April 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement near the Bunkerville ranch of Cliven Bundy.
A state judge Thursday reduced by more than two-thirds the amount of a bond sought by the state treasurer and attorney general’s office from a group of parents challenging Nevada’s education savings account.
A substitute teacher was arrested on Wednesday on a charge of sexual misconduct with a student according to Ken Young of the Clark County School District police.
A federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a district judge and granted a man involved in a 1999 robbery and shootout with Las Vegas police a new hearing on a juror misconduct claim.
The former head of Boulder City’s shelter has been indicted by Clark County grand jury on charges of animal cruelty, prosecutors said Thursday.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller on Thursday won committee approval of legislative language to boost broadband access in Nevada’s rural areas by putting federal agencies on a “shot clock.”
A 32-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday in connection with a stabbing that left a woman critically injured in a downtown apartment complex, Clark County Detention Center logs show.
A man with a knife jutting from his back walked into Centennial Hills Hospital after midnight Wednesday asking for help, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
A lawsuit filed against the Nye County Sheriff’s Office on Monday alleges a police sergeant led “pornographic matinees” at the station using sex tapes held in evidence.