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Nevada margins tax opponents raise $2.5 million

The high stakes battle over a measure that would impose a tax on large Nevada businesses to fund public education has shattered all records for a ballot issue, with opponents to Question 3 reporting nearly $2.5 million in contributions since June.

From a good place to die to a good place to live

Delamar was deadly. Named after the town’s chief gold mine owner, the late-1800s mining community became better known in Lincoln County as “the widow maker.”

Outgoing Washoe school boss opposed to M-16s

The outgoing superintendent of the Washoe County School District says he doesn’t believe school police should be armed with military-style assault weapons.

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Pilot killed in midair collision was Oregon man

One of the pilots killed when two planes collided Sunday in Northern Nevada has been identified, the Lyon County Sheriff’s office said. Tyler Adams, 28, from Corvallis, Ore., and the pilot from the second plane died when their airplanes crashed into each other in midair.

Nevada approves $70 million for Tesla-related road work

The State Transportation Board on Monday unanimously approved a $70 million design-build project for State Highway 439, also known as USA Parkway east of Reno in Storey and Lyon counties.

Lone banks in 2 rural Nevada towns to close

The lone banks in two small rural Nevada towns are closing, and residents and merchants wonder how they will get by without them.

Nevada’s fish weather third summer of drought

Northern Nevada’s fish were certainly affected but on the whole appear to have weathered a third summer of drought without any serious crash in population.

Las Vegas ‘tortoise gulag’ paroles last inmates

After years — perhaps a lifetime — in cushy captivity, desert tortoise No. 6349 spent his first five minutes of freedom hunched motionless under a bush in a rocky dry wash 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas.

Same-sex couples go beyond domestic partnerships

A license to marry for same-sex couples finishes what Nevada’s domestic partnership law left undone more than a decade ago.

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