Rural Nevada fracking opponents protested a federal oil and gas lease sale to Noble Energy in Reno on Thursday out of concern about the potential impact on the environment and the livelihoods of local ranchers.
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The June death of her 7-month-old foster daughter prompted Sheila Smith to ask a legislative committee to evaluate Clark County Department of Family Services’ medical policies and procedures on Friday. Smith did take her ailing foster daughter to the hospital, but doctors needed to run a test to treat her condition, which required consent from the biological mother, she said. Family Services couldn’t locate the biological mother and told Smith it would take two weeks to get a court order allowing the baby to undergo the needed medical procedures .
If hogtying is being used to restrain juveniles at state-run facilities, the practice needs to stop immediately, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada said Friday.
A Las Vegas attorney on Friday asked the state labor commissioner to fix what he called loopholes in the state’s minimum wage regulations that have resulted in workers being cheated out of either a higher wage or health insurance.
Crews have reported progress on a western Nevada wildfire that had threatened the ranch of former casino owner John Ascuaga.
A man convicted of fatally stabbing former “Little Rascals” actor Jay R. Smith and dumping his body in the desert in 2002 has died in prison.
Concerns about the way juveniles are being restrained at the Nevada Youth Training Center in Elko have prompted a Family Court judge to order the removal of all Clark County juveniles from the facility.
A life prison term was imposed Thursday for a man who killed and dismembered a house guest in Kingman, Ariz., in November 2011.
Magicians Siegfried & Roy are welcoming three new snowy white lion cubs to their Secret Garden habitat on the Strip.
Already this summer, inspectors have intercepted 24 boats headed to Lake Tahoe with troublesome quagga mussels and other invaders attached, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Wednesday in seeking more federal help to track and contain the hostile species.
Despite promises of reform, veterans in Nevada continue to suffer the longest waits in the nation to have disability claims completed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller on Wednesday told a top VA official trying to turn around the troubled agency.
A bill that passed the U.S. House on Wednesday contains a message that federal agencies shouldn’t discriminate against Las Vegas or other resort cities when they plan conferences or meetings.
A future Maryland Parkway facelift received a $50,000 grant Wednesday from the National Endowment for the Arts to bankroll public art. The Maryland Parkway project — which stretches from McCarran International Airport to downtown Las Vegas — is one of 66 projects nationwide receiving “Our Town” grants.
Vice President Joe Biden is coming to Las Vegas next week for an NAACP conference and to rally support for Erin Bilbray, the Democratic opponent of U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., her campaign confirmed on Tuesday.
A 52-ton concrete bridge survived a series of 10 earthquakes in the first multiple-shake-table experiment at the University of Nevada, Reno’s new Earthquake Engineering Lab.
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