In exclusive interview, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announces a new program to be operated through the university’s Center for Entrepreneurship that will solicit innovative ideas to improve work processes and save money.
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With debris scattered for miles across the flat countryside of the Mississippi Delta, federal and local officials combed soybean fields for clues in a military plane crash that killed 15 Marines and a Navy sailor.
A U.S. military plane crashed into a field in rural Mississippi on Monday, killing at least 16 people aboard and spreading debris for miles, officials said.
The event, featuring more than a dozen employers, will be held at the VA Medical Center, 6900 N. Pecos Road, from noon to 3 p.m.
“The stakes are high and there is no trophy for second place,” Col. Julian “Ghost” Cheater, new leader of the 432nd Expeditionary Wing, says at change-of-command ceremony.
A policy that takes effect Wednesday allows veterans who received an other-than-honorable discharge to receive emergency mental health care from Veterans Affairs facilities.
A $696.5 billion defense authorization bill passed by a House committee this week includes provisions of interest to Nevada, including a rejection of the Trump administration’s call for another round of base closures.
On a rare tour of the Nevada Test and Training Range, an Air Force official explains why the 2.9 million-plus acre facility is seeking to annex 278,000 acres of the neighboring Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
Measure co-sponsored by Nevada Sen. Dean Heller makes it easier to fire employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs for wrongdoing.
The F-16D Fighting Falcon from the Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team flipped after landing at the conclusion of a “familiarization flight” for an Ohio air show at Dayton International Airport, authorities say.
A Canadian Special Operations sniper shot an Islamic State fighter from nearly 2.2 miles away in Iraq, the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper reported Thursday.
Keeping its century old skull-and-propeller shoulder patch for its pilots and ground crew, the U.S. Air Force Weapons School reactivated the 6th Weapons Squadron on Tuesday at Nellis Air Force Base as a new home for F-35A Lightning II joint strike fighter jets.
Information on seeking health-care benefits and compensation under Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act will be provided.
North Las Vegas resident later worked as tireless veterans advocate and helped shape “stolen valor” laws aimed at war hero pretenders.
The U.S. Navy said Friday one of its destroyers had collided with a Philippine-flagged merchant vessel southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, in the dead of night and that one injured sailor would be evacuated by a Japanese coast guard helicopter.