Washoe County Sheriff Chuck Allen is siding with the National Rifle Association in opposition to Question 1 on the November ballot that proposes to expand background checks for firearm sales to private party sales and transfers in Nevada.
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Prescription drug addiction, the downward spiral of lives ruined, loved ones lost, and the cost to society were the focus of a daylong meeting convened Tuesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval, who called the problem a crisis.
Nevada no longer ranks dead last for its lackluster education system. Now, it’s only second-to-last, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual Kids Count report.
A suspect in a North Carolina homicide was arrested Monday morning in Pahrump, according to a news release from the Nye County Sheriff’s Office.
A German man found dead along a remote road in Death Valley National Park on June 9 was overcome by the heat, according to the coroner in Inyo County, Calif.
A state audit released Monday recommended Nevada’s debt collection efforts be transferred to the governor’s office from the state controller because of chronic problems, some dating back decades, and lack of confidence in the office to recoup unpaid bills.
A Nevada judicial panel has approved $3 million in funding for 34 specialty courts statewide, including new funding for three specialty courts in Las Vegas, Reno and Sparks.
One of the two people killed Friday morning in a crash on state Route 164 near Searchlight has been identified as Robert Smith, 43, of El Monte, California.
Two minimum-security inmates walked away from a firefighting camp on Sunday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
To critics of the federal effort to entomb the nation’s most potent radioactive material in Yucca Mountain, the newly released book, “Waste of a Mountain,” snubs the Nevada congressional delegation’s 30-year opposition to haul and bury the nation’s spent nuclear fuel in a maze of tunnels 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Republicans are taking the lessons they learned from the past three presidential elections and putting them to use in Nevada and elsewhere in 2016.
Conversations in Swahili and Spanish filled the hall of Our Lady of Las Vegas church on Friday afternoon as refugees and their families gathered for a day of celebration.
Two years after withdrawing from the Gold Butte area amid a 2014 standoff with the Bundy family, the federal government is moving back into the expansive stretch of desert 110 miles east of Las Vegas.
Nevada Democratic leaders continued to denounce Donald Trump on Friday, a day before the presumptive presidential nominee’s schedule rally in Las Vegas.
Two people were killed and six others injured in a Friday morning rollover crash on eastbound state Route 164 west of Searchlight, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
