The House passed a collection of Northern Nevada land bills on Monday that would create nearly 73,500 acres of new wilderness in the state while making more than 23,000 acres available for economic development in a rural counties.
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Two northern Nevada fire chiefs have asked the Public Utilities Commission to investigate the safety of NV Energy’s residential “smart” meters, saying they believe the meters are associated with a string of recent fires.
After years of wrangling, a package of Northern Nevada land bills is finally scheduled for a vote Monday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The race between Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., and his Democratic opponent, Erin Bilbray, is playing out like an episode of “Family Feud” with lots of laughs and smiles.
Four health centers in Nevada on Friday were awarded a little more than $1 million in Affordable Health Care funding to expand primary care services.
The $5 billion Tesla battery factory deal sealed by Gov. Brian Sandoval and approved by a special session of the Legislature is a high-risk, high-reward project that could be a turning point for both the electric car company and Nevada.
Senate Republicans last week blocked an effort by Democrats to change the Constitution so Congress could limit how much outside groups can spend on political campaigns.
A former Australian police officer has been sentenced to life in prison for exposing himself and viewing pornography in the presence of two young girls in Sparks.
A new kind of aircraft is competing for the first time at this week’s National Championship Air Races in Reno: drones.
A 21-year-old Las Vegas man was indicted Friday in connectin with fatal shooting that occurred more than a year ago.
Sentence was imposed in Kingman, Ariz., on Friday for a man who drove from Vilas, N.C., to Arizona in June to confess that he killed a woman in Bullhead City 17 years ago.
A former Wynn slot manager accused of falsifying jackpot tax information and pocketing more than $300,000 was indicted Friday by a Clark County grand jury.
A Bullhead City, Ariz., man arrested in the strangulation death of his friend’s young daughter was formally indicted Thursday by a Mohave County grand jury convened in Kingman.
The four children of an instructor who was killed at a northwestern Arizona shooting range used a 2½-minute video posted Friday to reach out to the 9-year-old girl who accidentally shot him.
A recall drive has been launched against all five Ely City Council members amid controversy over their handling of a financial audit of the Nevada Northern Railway tourist attraction.