Local Nevada
It came down to going out in the stunt planes or losing more than $8,000 they had ponied up for their Sky Combat Ace adventure.
For the first time in aviation history, a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft has successfully tested a cloud-seeding payload during an experimental flight in Nevada.
Construction will begin soon for a dormitory-style housing project near UNLV’s north side, driving the school’s yearslong push to lure more students to live near campus.
County officials emphasized the need for public attention to green pools and mosquito breeding, especially in light of concern over the Zika virus and the potential for the spread of the West Nile virus.
Former power broker Harvey Whittemore was released from a federal halfway house Monday after serving 21 months of a two-year prison term for breaking campaign contribution laws.
Benjamin Anderson Soyars III, 37, of Las Vegas, was the instructor pilot who was killed when a single-engine, stunt-ride airplane crashed Saturday near Jean, the Clark County coroner’s office said Monday.
An attorney representing a Nevada prison inmate who was denied a special diet he had requested as a practicing Thelemist asked the Supreme Court on Monday to reverse a lower court order rejecting his legal claim.
An oceanographer will soon take the helm at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute, quelling long-simmering fears that the organization might be taken over by the state’s universities.
Concerned about continued deterioration of drought-stricken rangeland in Nevada, the BLM’s state director wants to round up 4,000 wild horses in Elko County — more mustangs than were gathered across 10 Western states combined last year.
Peter Long, a veteran of state government, was named Monday as administrator of the Division of Human Resource Management.
Nevada Supreme Court justices asked pointed questions Monday on whether an effort to repeal the state’s new business tax is legally sound to proceed in the signature gathering process.
One of the two occupants killed Saturday evening in a plane crash near Jean has been identified.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s new commerce tax will take precedence today when the state’s highest court hears arguments on whether to halt or allow a referendum to repeal it.
Each weekday morning Boyd Graham rises at 4:30 a.m., leaving the Duckwater Shoshone reservation in the vast Railroad Valley to embark on a 150-mile round-trip journey.
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