The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline has set a Feb. 12 vote on whether to ban former Family Court Judge Steven Jones from the bench for life.
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A 58-year-old man doing time for burglary and robbery convictions has died, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced Monday.
The first day of spring is two months away, but Death Valley is getting an early jump on things.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the federal government in a long-running dispute with the late Nevada rancher Wayne Hage, remanding the case to a new federal judge because of apparent bias on the part of U.S. District Judge Robert Clive Jones.
For nearly all of his 81 years, Rudi Kraft has been a man on the move. He’s roamed Europe, Canada, Mexico and the American West. But most of those dusty, hard-won miles have been driven right here in Nevada.
Supporters of turning federal lands over to states and counties have blasted home their message with dramatic activism — staring down federal agents in Bunkerville and holing up in a wildlife refuge.
For three decades, Virginia Ridgway has been the keeper of the keys to an inn known worldwide for its posh history and guests who so enjoyed the accommodations they refused to leave — the ghosts of the Goldfield Hotel.
Months after applying for an education savings account, William Simms walked into Mountain View Christian School last Tuesday morning armed with an approval letter for his granddaughter’s early enrollment in Nevada’s new school choice program.
Call it an ironic political twist of fate. A constitutional amendment spearheaded more than a decade ago by a conservative Republican to take politics out of Nevada education funding is now at the heart of a legal battle that could upend a conservative GOP ideal — public funding for school choice.
In a shortened legislative week, the Senate blocked a bill to lift restrictions on Federal Reserve audits while the House approved bills challenging the Obama administration on environmental regulations, defying its veto threats.
Randy Johnston’s crowning achievement sits upon a dusty mountaintop in desolate Esmeralda County, looking more like a castle than one man’s desire to poke a stick in the eye of every construction inspector who ever cramped his builder’s style.
A California woman claims her former bookkeeper wrongfully transferred more than $180,000 from her bank accounts to Leslie Parraguirre, who is married to Nevada Supreme Court Justice Ron Parraguirre, and Leslie Parraguirre’s interior design company.
Attorney General Adam Laxalt on Friday filed an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn a state judge’s decision to put the brakes on the state’s controversial education savings accounts.
A small, locally owned Las Vegas rooftop-solar company announced Thursday it is cutting jobs and reducing hours due to the adoption of a new net metering rate by state regulators that took effect Jan. 1.
If you want to see bald eagles, you need to head north to a place like Alaska, Washington or Lake Mead’s Overton Arm.