Officers killed in the line of duty were honored in the 17th Annual Nevada Law Enforcement Officers Memorial ceremony Thursday in Carson City. Three men were added to this year’s commemorative service, including: Metro Officer David Vanbuskirk, Southern Pacific Railroad Police Watchman Jose Sancedo and Watchman John Montague.
NV Energy south is proposing to close three of its four Reid Gardner coal-fired units generating electricity in Southern Nevada by the end of this year as part of a filing made Thursday with the Public Utilities Commission.
The Nevada attorney general’s office has rejected a request by a former Henderson mayoral candidate to require Mayor Andy Hafen to explain why he should remain in office due to a recent term limits ruling.
With time growing short and the numbers of long-term unemployed workers growing long, senators on Thursday stepped up a call for House leaders to act on a bill to restore federal jobless benefits that expired in December.
Two Nevada police officers are being hailed as heroes for saving the life of a doctor who was critically injured in a shooting rampage at a Reno medical building.
Northern Nevada sheriff’s deputies are investigating the suspected murder of a highly-decorated Vietnam vet whose remains were found in a septic tank near Virginia City almost 34 years after he disappeared.
The Reno City Council authorized the layoffs of 35 firefighters after a federal grant that was used to fund those positions last year was not renewed.
The desert is home to some extreme temperatures, and Nevada is no exception.
Congressional candidate Niger Innis has more than twice as much Nevada Republican support than his opponent, Assemblyman Cresent Hardy, ahead of the GOP primary, according to a new poll released Wednesday that shows a vast majority of voters remain undecided.
Federal mine safety regulators are investigating the death of a worker at an underground gold mine in Elko County.
Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo says he still has a number of concerns over the way his officers handled the arrest of his second in command last week in a case that has ties to the political campaigns to replace him.
Members of Congress took the first steps Wednesday to stave off or reduce cuts to military benefits that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had proposed earlier this year.
The federal government paid $236 million to landowners in 11 states — including $35.6 million in Nevada — to preserve sage-grouse habitat amid a debate over whether the bird should be listed as an endangered species — potentially hindering energy development and ranching.
Operations at McCarran International Airport are returning to normal after flights were grounded for about an hour and a half Wednesday following an unspecified computer problem in the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control operation in Southern California.
A Northern Nevada Correctional Center inmate died Wednesday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections. Jerome Urban, 56, who died at the correctional center’s Regional Medical Facility, had a chronic medical condition.
