For decades, people have puzzled over Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, where hundreds of rocks weighing as much as 700 pounds roam across the surface of the dry lake bed.
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A state board that oversees the operation of Nevada’s common interest communities voted Wednesday to take no action to repeal its advisory opinion that says collection and attorney costs can be recovered as part of a super priority lien for homeowner dues in foreclosure cases.
A panel of lawmakers on Wednesday approved nearly $1.4 million to continue Nevada’s fight against Yucca Mountain despite the nuclear waste repository project being described by some critics as “the walking dead.”
Burning Man organizers announce end to rain delay and welcome attendees to the weeklong Northern Nevada rave in the wilderness. By midmorning Tuesday all but a few dozen of the RVs were back on the road again, and by most accounts, no worse for the wear.
A instructor who was shot by a 9-year-old girl who fired an Uzi at a Northern Arizona shooting range died Monday night at University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
Victor Chaltiel, a businessman and member of the Las Vegas Sands Corp. board of directors, who ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Las Vegas, died of cancer Monday.
A group of retirees is planning to protest Congressman Joe Heck’s stance on Social Security and Medicare outside of a private event he’s set to attend in Henderson.
An inmate died in a suspected suicide Sunday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
PHOENIX — Arizona transportation officials are warning motorists traveling on Interstate 15 in the northwest corner of Arizona over the Labor Day weekend to expect traffic delays and to allow extra travel time.
BLACK ROCK DESERT — Thousands of Burning Man enthusiasts are on the outside looking in after a rare batch of heavy rain forced organizers to temporarily close entry to the counterculture event in the desert 90 miles north of Reno.
RENO, Nev. — Local activists and leaders of the NAACP in Nevada joined the call on Monday for the immediate arrest of a Ferguson police officer who shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old Missouri man more than two weeks ago, triggering raucous street protests and police patrols in the St. Louis suburb.
Tesla Motors Inc. is building a supercharger station in the Sierra Nevada southwest of Reno where drivers of the company’s electric cars can recharge along Interstate 80.
Freelance photographer Don Carroll’s close-up, high-speed images reveal how hummingbirds use their extended tongues to drink nectar in his Las Vegas backyard.
A tide of 400 children arrived at the Southern Nevada Health District’s main clinic each day last week. The numbers were driven by procrastinating parents scrambling to get their children vaccinated before classes begin Monday in the Clark County School District.
Northern Nevada has a substantial literary community and its poetry circle is a vigorous one. So far this year three of the area’s most established poets have published work, along with at least one newcomer.
