A plea agreement has been entered to resolve a murder case in northwest Arizona. James Collins, 51, pleaded guilty Tuesday in the October 2014 death of his girlfriend Cynthia Horn, 54.
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A swarm of mostly small earthquakes in a remote part of northwestern Arizona has entered its fourth week its fourth week, gently shaking the sparsely populated area while piquing the curiosity of scientists from afar.
PHOENIX — Authorities have revealed how much money will be given to nine people in a settlement against two polygamous towns in Arizona and Utah that were found to have discriminated against nonbelievers.
Lake Tahoe’s famed waters lost clarity in 2015, due in part to warmer waters and more rain than snow the previous winter, researchers said Tuesday.
An inmate at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Reno died Tuesday morning.
Legislators and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce are calling for action following revelations that the Nevada System of Higher Education worked to undermine the Legislature’s effort to reform college and university funding models.
About 1 in 10 of public high schools in Nevada earned a spot on the U.S. News & World Report’s updated list of best highschools in the country.
Conservative Supreme Court justices expressed sharp skepticism about President Barack Obama’s immigration efforts Monday, leaving his actions to help millions of people who are in the country illegally in the hands of a seemingly divided court.
Nevada is home to some of the quietest spaces in the country, according to an analysis by the National Park Service. On detailed soundscape maps produced by the agency, much of the Silver State scarcely registers for either human-caused noise or the background buzz of nature.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday announced the appointment of UNLV law professor Francine Lipman to the Nevada Tax Commission, effective immediately for a term that will expire in October 2019.
In an annual rite of spring in the Nevada state capital, bleating sounds fill the air along the green hills on the west side of Carson City, where grazing sheep provide a natural source of wildfire suppression.
The Republican race between Danny Tarkanian and Michael Roberson is a primary contest to watch in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District.
The future of a November ballot referendum seeking to return Nevada’s rooftop solar program to its original, more favorable rates for homeowners remains uncertain, but that hasn’t stopped the opposition from starting its campaign.
In Sheriff Dan Watt’s territory in White Pine County, a regular chronicle of the human condition has become a must-read among residents. It’s the police blotter
The population of the endangered Devil’s Hole pupfish appears to be rebounding, according to a recent count in the water-filled cavern the species calls home 90 miles west of Las Vegas.
