Boulder City Police Chief Bill Conger has left his post after a blowup with people close to the criminal investigation into the former city animal control head accused of needlessly killing animals, the Review-Journal learned Monday.
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A state judge Monday put the brakes on Nevada’s education savings accounts, granting an injunction sought by opponents who said it would drain critical funding resources from Nevada’s public schools and is unconstitutional.
The state Board of Transportation on Monday approved a $76 million contract with a company to design and build a new road to improve access to the Tesla battery plant now under construction in Northern Nevada.
A state board Tuesday will consider paying nearly a half-million dollars to settle violations by the Nevada Corrections Department of a stipulation entered 15 years ago concerning censorship of prison publications.
In a sign of growing investment opportunities for well-positioned properties within the Las Vegas retail market, a Florida investment firm has entered the market for the first time and acquired a shopping center south of Summerlin.
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.
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.”
The standoff in Oregon has attracted more than cowboy-hatted ranchers preaching the Constitution and denouncing the Bureau of Land Management.
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.
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.
Brothel owner Dennis Hof announced Friday he’s running on the Libertarian ticket for outgoing Greg Brower’s Reno state Senate seat.
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.
An male inmate has died at the Northern Nevada Correction Center in Carson City, the Nevada Corrections Department said in a release.
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.
Last year marked the fourth straight year in which roadway fatalities increased in Nevada, the state Transportation Department reported Wednesday.