The father of a Southern California woman found dead on the far south end of the valley said Thursday that his daughter traveled to Pahrump to visit two friends.
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It’s no insult to say Mineral County got off to a rocky start. Long before the county even existed, its wealth of minerals had already put it on the map — though that map was not always terribly accurate.
You’d be hungry too if you couldn’t find any food and were used to eating the equivalent of more than 80 cheeseburgers a day.
While Secretary of State Ross Miller on Wednesday called an ethics complaint against him “silly,” his office has nevertheless modified the agency’s website to remove his photo and other information from an online election portal for overseas voters to participate in the Nov. 4 general election.
An already busy bear season has exploded in the Sierra Nevada with 10 hungry bruins captured in a single day this week near Reno and Lake Tahoe as drought continues to make food scarce.
A former California schoolteacher sentenced to death by a jury in 2010 for killing his wife in a Las Vegas hotel room had his conviction and sentence upheld Thursday by the Nevada Supreme Court.
State Sen. Mark Hutchison says he and GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval will propose a package of education reforms in exchange for increasing K-12 spending.
A motorcyclist injured in a collision with a vehicle in Bullhead City, Ariz., on Wednesday died of his injuries Thursday morning at University Medical Center.
The Clark County coroner’s office has issued a final ruling in the accidental shooting death of a 39-year-old Arizona gun instructor by a 9-year-old girl using an automatic Uzi.
A third Nevada inmate has died this week, the Nevada Department of Corrections reported Wednesday.
From welfare payments being sent to deceased individuals to the disastrous implementation of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, the 2014 Nevada Piglet Book contains what the conservative think tank NPRI calls “some of the most ridiculous examples of government waste” in the state.
Nevada tourism officials are planning a three-day festival in Reno next fall to celebrate and promote the city as the birthplace of what became modern blue jeans.
An ethics complaint has been filed against Secretary of State Ross Miller on allegations that he used an online election portal to unfairly gain support for his candidacy for attorney general.
As a panel of Nevada policymakers on Wednesday adopted a new conservation plan designed to protect sage grouse habitat, the Western Governors Association has expressed concern that the multi-state effort is being treated as an afterthought by federal agencies.
Nye County sheriff’s detectives are investigating the death of a 27-year-old Southern California woman whose body was discovered in the desert along Hafen Ranch Road on Thursday.