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VA awards $12M contract for Pahrump clinic

The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $12.1 million contract Wednesday to build a long-awaited new health care clinic for veterans in Pahrump.

VA chief says progress made since 2014 Las Vegas visit

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald returned to Las Vegas Tuesday where he set goals a year ago to restore trust in an agency rocked by scandals.

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VA shutdown threat averted; Congress OKs fiscal plan

Congress finished work Thursday on a bill that will avert the latest fiscal crisis within the Department of Veterans Affairs and avoid a threatened shutdown of VA hospitals.

FAA honors Vegas pilot who’s done it all

Count Guido Roberto Deiro has racked up a lot of aviation feats during the decades he’s been a commercial pilot.

VA hospitals across the country could close without bailout

The secretary of Veterans Affairs told lawmakers on Wednesday that unless Congress takes emergency action to correct a $2.5 billion shortfall, the VA at the end of the month will begin shutting down medical centers “€œall across the country.”

Military recruiters get a little armed help from their friends

Marine veteran Danny Michaels puffed on a cigarette Wednesday while he sat in front of the Armed Forces Career Center on South Maryland Parkway. His .40-caliber pistol was snug in its holster on his hip and his Mossberg shotgun loaded with buckshot was within arm’s reach.

Former POW Jessica Lynch learning to deal with pain of war

Jessica Lynch, the woman made famous for being a prisoner of war in Iraq, has been dealing with the alienation and the sense of dislocation that soldiers experience when they return from war.

Navy SEAL, 2 sailors among those hurt in Henderson plane crash

Three of the four men injured in a small plane crash near Henderson Executive Airport Sunday are active-duty military — a Navy SEAL and two sailors assigned to the Naval Special Warfare Command in Coronado, Calif., the Navy said Monday.

Nevada veteran cemeteries offer xeriscape option

FERNLEY — Until now, the graves of Nevada veteran cemeteries were mandated to be groomed with green grass, an adornment deemed fitting to show respect and reverence for those who served their country.

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