CARSON CITY — Southern Nevada hotel-casino operators are asking state regulators to mandate that Nevada Power provide detailed information on other competitive options to contrast with the utility company’s preliminary proposal to build a new $965 million gas plant to meet Southern Nevada’s future energy needs.
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A new area manager has been named for the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, a part of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest just east of the Las Vegas Valley.
Grand jury indictments bring charges against 11 inmates involved in a July 1 disturbance at the state prison in northwest Arizona.
The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services reached a $400,000 settlement with the City of San Francisco over Nevada’s busing of indigent mental patients to the city in years past.
On Sunday, a park volunteer reported finding a small, two-seat helicopter in a wash near the upper White Rock parking area, at the end of a short dirt road off the park’s popular scenic loop. There was no sign of the pilot, and Bureau of Land Management officials initially had no idea how the aircraft got there or how it would be removed.
Nevada is working to fix a system that keeps paroled prisoners behind bars because they’re too poor to pay for somewhere to live on the outside.
The shuttered Nevada State Prison, which started as a territorial prison before Nevada statehood in 1864, was listed Friday on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service.
Nevada’s new director of the Department of Administration has plenty of challenges as he starts his fourth week on the job, not the least of which is getting a handle on the myriad agencies under his control.
The changing of the seasons, cooler temperatures and a little bit of rain means an end to fire restrictions on most public lands in Nevada.
State and American flags in Nevada will fly at half-staff until Tuesday in honor of the nine people fatally gunned down at an Oregon college on Thursday, the governor’s office said.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval embarked on a major Nevada road trip this week, looking to cover more than 1,100 miles as he visits nine state parks and travels through 14 counties as part of a “Discover Your Nevada” tour.
RENO — A Reno man who pleaded no contest to torturing and mutilating dogs in a motel room was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison.
CARSON CITY — The Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City will be getting a face-lift, thanks to a $3.5 million grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
A district judge on Thursday threw out a proposed referendum petition seeking to ask voters next year to repeal a $1.4 billion tax increase approved by the 2015 Legislature to help fund Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld major provisions of the state’s medical malpractice law, overturning a judge who found that a $350,000 cap on non-economic damages was unconstitutional.