GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval seems a little surprised that he didn’t draw a strong Republican or Democratic opponent as he faces near certain re-election to a second term come Nov. 4, but he said he isn’t taking anything for granted.
Local Nevada
Cash-hungry local governments are eyeing changes to the property tax cap enacted by the Legislature in 2005 when land values were soaring, but state policymakers don’t appear ready at this point to entertain wholesale changes to the formula in the 2015 session.
The Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners voted unanimously Saturday to prohibit antler collecting in Nevada during a winter-spring period to reduce the stress on the elk and deer populations.
Eighty years after Roy Frisch’s disappearance, the fate of the former Reno city councilman and the head cashier of the Riverside Bank remain unknown.
River otters, a rarely seen mammal thought by many to be absent at Lake Tahoe, is being spotted again.
The governors of two states met at the site of two spectacular engineering achievements Friday and pledged to make the completion of Interstate 11 a reality.
First lady Kathleen Sandoval used a sword belonging to Nevada’s fifth governor on Friday to slice into a 1,300-pound cake baked to commemorate an important date on the road to statehood nearly 150 years ago.
Thousands of American flags line the streets in a tiny central Illinois village where residents are preparing to bid a final farewell to a U.S. Marine killed during a fighter jet crash in Nevada.
As part of an Obama administration climate-change initiative, the Desert Research Institute will partner with Google to create real-time drought mapping of the United States and models of global water consumption.
A Northern Nevada man who was arrested on suspicion of felony drunken driving minutes after filing his candidacy for county sheriff has dropped out of the race.
The Clark County Museum is admitting visitors for free Friday in celebration of Nevada’s 150th birthday as a state.
Priscilla Rocha, under investigation for misuse of taxpayer funds by the Las Vegas police, says she did nothing wrong, “Everything I did was for the families and students.”
The Truckee Meadows Water Authority doesn’t expect to have to impose any extra water conservation measures in the Reno-Sparks area this summer thanks to a series of late-winter Sierra Nevada storms that helped take the bite out of the region’s lingering drought.
There’s gold in them thar antlers, and as a result, the Nevada Department of Wildlife is looking at regulating the growing practice of “shed hunting” to protect the state’s deer and elk populations.
Edgar Flores of Las Vegas, a 27-year-old Democrat, first-year attorney and first-time candidate, is Nevada’s newest state lawmaker.
