The Las Vegas Review-Journal and its staff won first place for general excellence for the sixth year in a row Saturday in the Nevada Press Association’s 2014 Better Newspaper Contest.
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Rain fell intermittently near Moapa Saturday night, leading the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood advisory.
A historic building burned down Saturday afternoon in the ghost town of Rhyolite, about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas in west-central Nevada.
A California-based biofuel company building a plant east of Reno has been awarded a $70 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to help speed delivery of its high-tech process that converts household garbage into jet fuel.
Reno teenagers are among a generation of young climbers looking to scale the ranks in the sport of speed climbing, which has existed in various forms since the 1940s but didn’t enter the mainstream until about 50 years later.
A ranch house that was disassembled in Virginia City and reconstructed in 1903 in the Mason Valley about 80 miles southeast of Reno has been added to the Nevada State Register of Historic Places.
Public health officials are warning Moapa Valley residents about the potential for an increase in mosquitoes as a result of Sept. 8 flash flooding that swamped houses and destroyed a stretch of Interstate 15.
A man who had been armed with an ax and barricaded himself in an apartment with children has been taken into custody in Laughlin, Las Vegas police said.
Nevada’s housing market is about average these days, and observers say that’s just fine.
A former civilian defense contractor working at the U.S. military’s Pacific headquarters was sentenced to prison on Wednesday for divulging military secrets to his Chinese girlfriend and keeping classified documents at his home.
Nevada’s U.S. senators split Thursday on backing Syrian rebels with arms and training, offering starkly different views as to whether the plan that cleared both houses of Congress might work to repel violent Islamic jihadists in the Middle East.
State transportation officials are refuting rancher Cliven Bundy’s claim that they are ultimately responsible for keeping his cattle off Interstate 15 in northeastern Clark County.
Nevadans who live overseas, including military and others, can register to vote and cast ballots — all electronically — in the 2014 election, thanks to a new system announced by the secretary of state Thursday.
Gentlemen’s clubs are not being unfairly targeted under Nevada’s live entertainment tax, the state’s high court ruled Thursday.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a super priority lien held by a homeowners association can extinguish a first deed of trust on a property, a decision that will create a windfall for some real estate investors in Las Vegas who picked up properties for pennies on the dollar.
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