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Proposed orders uphold exit fees for Las Vegas gaming companies

Draft orders that will be considered by the Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday reject arguments by three Las Vegas gaming companies that they should be able to pay lower fees to leave Nevada Power as retail customers.

At Reno rally, Trump says NFL and America are going ‘soft’

Add the NFL to Donald Trump’s list of campaign trail targets. At a Reno rally, the GOP front-runner said professional football — like the United States — have both gone “soft.”

Washington Digest: House returns to red meat agenda

The House Republican majority opened the second year of the 114th Congress with votes to overturn President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, defund Planned Parenthood, rein in federal regulations and restrain class-action lawsuits.

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Conservationists worry about Gold Butte as feds keep their distance

As far as some conservationists are concerned, Oregon isn’t the only place under occupation. Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and his well-armed supporters still control a vast swath of public land in northeastern Clark County that has been all but abandoned by the federal government.

Federal land sale fund growing again for Nevada

program that has generated $3.5 billion since 1998 for Nevada parks and trails, open spaces, forest fire prevention and hundreds of other projects is back after being hit hard by the Great Recession.

Inmate dies in Northern Nevada Correction Center

An male inmate has died at the Northern Nevada Correction Center in Carson City, the Nevada Corrections Department said in a release.

Nevada’s AG accuses lieutenant governor of ‘ethical conflicts’

Attorney General Adam Laxalt on Thursday accused Nevada’s lieutenant governor of “ethical conflicts” and asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit he filed in his private capacity over the state’s new education saving accounts program.

Audit: Better monitoring of foreclosure settlement funds needed

The Nevada attorney general’s office needs to strengthen its monitoring of settlement funds designed to help victims of the foreclosure crisis in Nevada, a legislative audit has found.

Body found by hiker in Mountain Springs identified

The Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday identified the skeletal remains of a hiker found Dec. 30 in Mountain Springs, an unincorporated area south of the Spring Mountains between Las Vegas and Pahrump.

Woman at center of brain death case dies in Reno

A Las Vegas woman who became the focus of a legal battle over whether doctors could remove her from life support has died, a lawyer for the family said Tuesday.

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