An attorney for a High Desert State Prison inmate has filed a use-of force lawsuit alleging the inmate was “sadistically and maliciously shot” by a guard in November.
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A half dozen corrections officers were hurt in a disturbance at the Arizona State Prison in northwest Arizona on Wednesday night.
Temperatures may be soaring, but Nevadans should see a dip in their energy bills under an NV Energy rate decrease that took effect Wednesday. In Southern Nevada, the average monthly bill of $154.54 will drop about $4.84.
One bicyclist was killed and another injured in a collision just south of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., on Wednesday morning.
Many elected state higher education leaders say they want more information about Chancellor Dan Klaich’s efforts to quash a report critical of his agency, and some question his leadership.
Controversial Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy just wanted to shake hands with Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul at a campaign event in Mesquite on Monday, but also was invited to a private meeting with the U.S. senator from Kentucky.
One person was killed and three people were hurt in a single-vehicle traffic accident in northwest Arizona Tuesday.
Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul told an audience that included rogue rancher Cliven Bundy that he supports relinquishing federal management of public lands.
Private insurance carriers in Nevada cannot exclude or deny transgender people coverage for medically necessary treatments if such procedures are covered for other people, the state’s insurance commissioner said in a bulletin released Monday by a transgender advocacy group.
Rep. Dina Titus is packing for a congressional trip overseas later this week.
Nevada joined 12 other states Monday in a lawsuit challenging an Obama administration rule expanding the federal government’s authority over non-navigational waters.
Divers on Saturday recovered the body of a man who disappeared after jumping into Lake Havasu late Friday afternoon.
Rather than basking in the glow of victory after the GOP swept the Nevada Assembly, Senate and state constitutional races just seven months ago, conservative Republicans are plotting against their own for 2016 and trying to make what’s been called the biggest tax increase in state history go away.
State and local authorities have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property worth $3 billion under the equitable sharing program since 2008.
A dozen endangered Amargosa voles raised at the University of California, Davis were set free in the waist-high grass at a spring-fed marsh near the tiny town of Tecopa, Calif., about 90 miles west of Las Vegas.