Federal authorities will restrict access to almost 600,000 acres of public land for the next seven weeks as they prepare to round up what they call “trespass cattle” in the desert 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
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Organizers of the Reno National Championship Air Races said they plan more of a festival atmosphere at 51st competition at Reno Stead Airport in September.
The Nevada Department of Agriculture has been certified to diagnose a devastating citrus tree disease that has hit California, Florida and Texas crops.
The biggest drill yet was conducted in Nevada on Tuesday for federal agencies and police from Las Vegas and Los Angeles who are training for the unthinkable — a “dirty” nuclear bomb that’s hidden or deadly radioactive remnants from a power reactor gone haywire.
A Virginia truck driver has pleaded guilty to three counts of involuntary manslaughter after authorities said he collided with a disabled car in northeast Nevada and killed a couple and a tow truck driver.
Danny Tarkanian said Tuesday he has dropped out of the race for Board of Regents because he doesn’t want to run against a family friend.
The Nevada Division of Minerals on Friday hosted a third and final public workshop aimed at fine tuning its oversight of the controversial extraction process, in which well operators use a pressurized slurry of water, sand and chemicals to tap into deposits of natural gas and oil trapped in rock deep underground.
For the second time since 2012, Clark County rancher, CLiven Bundy, has been served notice by federal authorities who plan to impound hundreds of cattle he left to roam on public land almost 20 years after the government told him to remove them.
Nevada will receive more than $18 million from the federal government for fish and wildlife conservation projects.
Tim Chambers is being inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame later this spring. But UNLV’s baseball coach hopes he won’t be able to attend the May 30 ceremony at Orleans Arena.
The half-dozen protesters are a part of a nationwide effort with women across the country putting pressure on the GOP to update the law so that the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States might be able to legally live here and perhaps become U.S. citizens.
Some say the best time to see Cathedral Gorge State Park is in the middle of the summer on a moonless night. That’s when thousands of stars emerge over the rugged Lincoln County landscape in the cool, high-desert air.
Representatives from the Henderson Fire Department will be at various locations as part of the city’s 1st Annual Emergency Preparedness Week through Saturday.
GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval seems a little surprised that he didn’t draw a strong Republican or Democratic opponent as he faces near certain re-election to a second term come Nov. 4, but he said he isn’t taking anything for granted.
Cash-hungry local governments are eyeing changes to the property tax cap enacted by the Legislature in 2005 when land values were soaring, but state policymakers don’t appear ready at this point to entertain wholesale changes to the formula in the 2015 session.