Amy Parks, a longtime employee of the Nevada Division of Insurance, has been named acting insurance commissioner.
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Change would put the Department of Defense in charge of almost 850,000 acres currently managed by both the Pentagon and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Another bicyclist involved in a July 1 collision with a vehicle just south of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., has died at University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
Nevada Highway Patrol and Mount Charleston fire crews were called about 3 p.m. Tuesday to the wreck on Kyle Canyon Road, 11 miles west of U.S. Highway 95.
An electric chair lift designed to help a handicapped woman is believed to have sparked a fire that caused her Tuesday death in Kingman, Ariz., according t0 the Kingman Fire Department.
Two children suffered minor injuries after food-seeking elk circled the picnic table from which their family was eating in the Hualapai Mountains about 10 miles southeast of Kingman.
Three face an extra charge of being felons in possession of firearms, the release said.
The Nevada Department of Taxation began the nitty-gritty task Tuesday of figuring out how to implement Nevada’s new commerce tax, part of a $1.1 billion revenue package approved by lawmakers six weeks ago.
A 1-year-old girl who was ejected from a moving vehicle was the lone survivor of a crash that killed two adults over the weekend in Northern Nevada, according to the Highway Patrol.
A new analysis being released Monday shows many communities in Nevada are still struggling and have a long way to go in the cycle of economic rebirth.
The largest multistate training exercise ever conducted by the Army Special Operations Command is scheduled to begin July 15 on private and public land in seven states in the Southwest and Southeast — but not Nevada.
Rescue crews are looking for a man who jumped off a boat at Lake Mead National Recreation Area Sunday afternoon, park officials said.
Bullhead City police said the 8:00 a.m. crash occurred at the intersection of Meadows Drive and Highway 95.
More than 1,000 inmates had been transferred from the Hualapai Unit of the prison to other corrections facilities by Sunday afternoon.
The dozen or so homes and vacation cabins high in the canyon 60 miles west of Las Vegas have been without a permanent water source since the Carpenter 1 fire, and relief is still at least another 18 months away.