Lawyers involved in the remaining court challenge to Nevada’s school choice law asked the Nevada Supreme Court on Friday to schedule expedited oral arguments so the case can be decided before the next school year.
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Congresswoman Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, and Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada Executive Director Barbara Buckley called attention Friday to a national backlog of visas for undocumented immigrant victims of crime.
An effort by Nevada officials to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former psychiatric patient who claimed he was involuntarily discharged from a Las Vegas mental health facility has been rejected by the Nevada Supreme Court.
A Nevada man who participated in the armed occupation of an Oregon bird sanctuary has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.
The investigation into a prescription drug-trafficking ring in Reno is the state’s most extensive in the five years since U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said his office and area law officers have stepped up efforts to combat the growth of “dirty doctors and illicit pill mills” throughout Nevada.
Misaligned mirrors caused a small fire high in a tower at a solar power plant on the California-Nevada border near Primm but fire officials said there was little damage.
Ramses Reyes had been serving a 600-month (50-year) sentence for two counts of lewdness with a minor and one count of attempted use of a child producing pornography, Keast said.
Nevada school districts and local governments received a $19.1 million windfall over the past three years because of a computer programming glitch at the Department of Motor Vehicles, state officials revealed Thursday.
A former Hollywood madam’s three-year-old drug case involving a marijuana grow operation at her Pahrump home was dismissed Friday after a Nye County judge ruled that the woman was unlawfully arrested.
Carson City parks officials are warning residents to be on the lookout after a reported sighting of a female bear with cubs near Fuji Park.
Bitterness over the Nevada Democratic convention festered Tuesday with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders blaming the state party for “preventing a fair” process and national party leaders denouncing the chaos that marred the weekend convention in Las Vegas.
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake reported in rural Northern Nevada on Saturday was felt near the site of the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert, seismologists said.
Nevada’s unfunded public pension liabilities have grown as a share of personal income from 2003 to 2013, reaching 11.8 percent in the most recent year in a national report released Tuesday by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
The RiSE Lantern Festival is returning to Southern Nevada this October for the third year.
Federal immigration officers apprehended 65 foreign nationals in and around Las Vegas last week, including convicted drug traffickers and known street gang members.
