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.
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The Regional Transportation Commission is reporting the Sloan on-ramp at Interstate 15 is has reopened after it was closed for just less than an hour Friday because of a crash.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto says she’ll debate Republican opponent Joe Heck, provided at least one debate is on a Spanish television station.
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid might not be running this cycle, but he scored a broad victory in the Nevada primary on Tuesday when congressional candidates he supported — state Sen. Ruben Kihuen and synagogue leader Jacky Rosen — landed decisive wins.
The Nevada secretary of state found no evidence of wrongdoing by four political action committees overseen by state Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson.
With a sigh of relief, incumbent Felicia Ortiz put her hand over her chest and looked up from a laptop. The screen showed she was the leader in the State Board of Education District 3 race. She finished the night with 46.3 percent of primary election votes with 100 percent of precincts reporting.
The attorney general’s office Tuesday asked the Nevada Supreme Court to postpone oral arguments in the highly watched school choice case because the state’s hired legal counsel will be out of the country on July 8.
A man found dead along a dirt road in Death Valley National Park on Thursday has been identified as Reinhard Egger, 60, of Germany.
If early voting turnout is any indication, Tuesday’s primary election day could be one of the busiest in recent memory, Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said.
Conservationists are asking the White House Council on Environmental Quality to put the brakes on plans to allow a popular off-road, desert race from near Las Vegas to Reno to run through a newly established national monument in Southern Nevada.
Democratic leader Harry Reid says he wishes he could stay in the U.S. Senate forever.
Members of the dance group Brothers are Radically Superb (BARS) don’t want to be in a gang, so they choose dance. “Not everyone has to face that kind of a decision,” said Rachel Aston, a Las Vegas Review-Journal visual journalist who took home an Emmy on Saturday night for her video, “Brothers Are Radically Superb.”
A marijuana expert from Colorado told business leaders here on Friday that after that state legalized recreational use of the drug in 2012, workplace incidents of employees under the influence rose from 6 percent to 20 percent in the following year.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man found dead Wednesday on a pedestrian bridge in Laughlin.
Southern Nevada’s business community is pushing to speed construction of Interstate 11 between Las Vegas and Phoenix.
