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Colorado River could reach the sea for first time in decades

The Colorado River could spill into the Gulf of California’s tidewater channel during high tide Thursday, which would be the first time in 20 years that the Colorado has reached the sea.

New tax break could be worth millions on the Strip

The Senate began debate Tuesday on a bill to renew more than 50 tax breaks for individuals and businesses, including a handful with particular resonance in Nevada and a new one that could be worth millions on the Strip.

Police: Nevada school shooter left conflicting suicide notes

A Nevada seventh-grader who went on a deadly schoolyard shooting rampage had images of the Columbine gunmen on his cellphone and told a therapist three days before the October attack that classmates were teasing him, authorities said Tuesday.

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Settlement reached in dispute over 3 acres needed for Boulder City bypass

CARSON CITY – A right-of-way dispute over 3 acres of land needed for the Boulder City bypass has been settled for “substantially less” than the last $33 million offer from the landowner, a state transportation official said Monday.

BLM chief: Lawbreakers in Bundy confrontation will be held accountable

The director of the Bureau of Land Management said Monday that lawbreakers will be “held accountable” as the agency pursues a new plan to enforce court orders against Southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy for illegally grazing cattle on public land.

Fallout from Obamacare dominates final GOP lieutenant governor’s debate

In what likely was their final debate, GOP lieutenant governor candidates Sue Lowden and Mark Hutchison clashed heatedly Monday over her $600,000 in unpaid campaign debts and his votes to implement Obamacare as a Nevada-run exchange despite his opposition to the health care insurance law.

Report: Highway fund shortfall would lead to congestion, job losses

Nevada drivers will have to live with increasing road congestion and multi-year delays to critical highway projects if Congress does not act by September to address a looming federal highway funding shortfall, state officials were told Monday.

Nevadans stuck in Arizona desert for 3 days

Arizona authorities assisted two Nevada residents who were stranded three days in a remote area of southern Mohave County as they attempted to free their pickup truck after it got stuck in a wash.

 
Possible charges against Utah ATV protest riders

The Bureau of Land Management has begun an investigation that could lead to charges against nearly 50 people who rode ATVs on an off-limits trail last weekend in Utah to show their displeasure with the federal government.

Election TV ad war between Lowden, Hutchison focuses on Reid

The new TV ad war between GOP lieutenant governor candidates Sue Lowden and Mark Hutchison plays out like a debate — charge and countercharge — centered on U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate majority leader.

Nevada ranchers fight feds for survival in changing times

Ranching on federal public lands is diminishing, and remaining ranchers in Nevada and throughout the West — a hardy breed of survivors enduring changing times — are feeling squeezed by the federal government.

Washington Digest: House GOP takes on Obama administration

House Republicans last week approved resolutions to bolster their investigations of the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and IRS targeting of conservative groups that they claim have been stonewalled by the White House.

Dozens of protesters ride ATVs in off-limits Utah canyon

Dozens of people rode their ATVs and motorcycles on an off-limits trail in southern Utah on Saturday in a protest against what the group calls the federal government’s overreaching control of public lands.

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