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Missing hiker in Red Rock Canyon found

At 1:30 p.m., Las Vegas police responded to a call for a missing woman, 62, who was separated from two companions while hiking on Scenic Loop Drive in Red Rock Canyon on Saturday, Metro spokesman Lt. Erik Lloyd said.

You might take Ed Vogel for granted, but not his work

Whether he was patrolling the halls of the Legislature or roaming the backroads of his adopted Silver State, for 37 years Ed Vogel was a remarkably durable and reliable scribe.

Heller in coalition reviving campus assault bill

A new effort to improve how campus sex assaults are investigated and judged was launched Thursday by a dozen senators including Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada.

 
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Reno’s economy is thriving, but will it continue?

During 2014, 34 companies relocated to the Reno area. Nearly 4,200 jobs were created, bringing unemployment down to 6.4 percent, a big drop from 2011’s high of 14.2 percent.

If not nuclear waste, how will DOE use Yucca Mountain?

The Energy Department appears to be shopping new uses for Yucca Mountain that it no longer wants for disposal of nuclear waste, according to senior House Republicans.

National Guard, local authorities practice for disasters, terrorism — PHOTOS

The scene Wednesday of first responders wearing bright orange hazardous material suits, scaling railroad tank cars and trying to shut off leaks was not far from the place where 42 tons of liquefied chlorine spewed from a pipe at the Pioneer Chlor Alkali plant 24 years ago.

Top official delivers bleak forecast for Lake Mead

Nevada faces “significant possibilities” of water shortages if drought on the Colorado River persists into the next two years, according to an ominous forecast delivered Wednesday by a top government official.

Laxalt takes immigration stance to Capitol Hill

Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt on Wednesday presented Congress the case against President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, delivering an argument he said should focus on constitutional law and not partisan politics.

Historic Territorial Enterprise returning to Virginia City

The Territorial Enterprise of Mark Twain fame will be reborn March 12 in the form of a website and glossy monthly magazine in Virginia City that will cover politics, policy, business and culture around the state.

More turnover at top of Reno VA benefits office

The Department of Veterans Affairs is turning over leadership again at the top of its embattled regional benefits office in Reno.

Second golden eagle found dead at Nevada wind farm

Conservationists are calling for regulatory action after the death of a second golden eagle in three years at a White Pine County wind farm that sells power to NV Energy.

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