Charles Gary Sullivan, the 73-year-old man charged with the 1979 killing, was extradited Friday to the Washoe County Sheriff’s jail.
Colton Lochhead
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Colton Lochhead covers pot and politics for the Review-Journal, where he started as an intern covering crime and breaking news in 2012. Raised in Las Vegas, the life-long desert rat graduated from Bonanza High School before earning his journalism degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Certified Ag Labs, a marijuana testing facility in Sparks, became the first lab to have its state license suspended after the state announced it was investigating cannabis labs.
A man arrested in connection with a four-decade-old slaying near Reno is suspected by authorities in two other, similar killings that took place around the same time.
Forty years after the murder of a woman whose body was found in the remote hills north of Reno, DNA evidence led Washoe County sheriff’s deputies to arrest a man in connection with the case, which is eerily similar to another unsolved murder that took place the same year.
Lawyers on both sides of a controversial, longstanding plan to pump rural groundwater from eastern Nevada to Las Vegas continued their decades-old argument in Ely this week.
The audit outlined several areas that could be improved upon to increase transparency and trust as the state moves forward in expanding the number of cannabis dispensaries.
Three Nevada Board of Dental Examiners members resigned Thursday and two staffers were terminated after a Review-Journal investigation into the board.
A proposed constitutional amendment would take the responsibility of drawing districts away from the Legislature and giving it to an independent commission.
Environmentalists and Native American tribes are among those opposing a federal lands bill backed by Clark County that they say could hasten a plan to pipe rural water down to Las Vegas.
Mall food court giant Cinnabon has filed a federal lawsuit against a Las Vegas-based company for using its sticky-sweet brand name on some vape products.
A federal judge ruled Monday that Nevada can file an amended lawsuit to ask the federal government to remove a half-ton of plutonium secretly shipped to the state last year.
Nevada inspectors are conducting spot checks of marijuana businesses after tainted products made their way to store shelves.
The American Bar Association, the ACLU of Nevada, public defenders and law professors are all urging the Nevada Supreme Court to ban the death penalty for people who suffer from severe mental illness.
California Sen. Kamala Harris called for the president to give up any transcripts or notes taken during conversations with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Democratic presidential hopeful stuck mostly to themes such as curbing corruption in Washington, D.C., reforming elections and making the mega-wealthy pay more in taxes.