Nevada News

A bicycle rider rides through a sandstorm during the Burning Man Festival in Nevada on Sept.

Jazz & Beyond, a 17-day festival that starts Friday with a Mad Hatter Garden Party at the Governor's Mansion.

For 15 years, Jubreal Chahine has lurked at the illicit edges of the gambling tables, a habitual casino cheat who made his living by an opportunistic sleight-of-hand that landed him top ranking on the Nevada Gaming Control Board's "most-wanted" list.

Douglas County is hosting the Western Nevada College "Always Lost: A Meditation on War" arts and humanities exhibition as part of a special Nevada Sesquicentennial tour sponsored by the Nevada Department of Veterans Services .

If you're hiding a dirty little credit secret - a debt in collections - you have plenty of company.

A Northern Nevada wilderness and development bill left for dead earlier this year is getting new life in Congress.Lawmakers have reached an agreement on setting aside 26,000 acres as wilderness in the Pine Forest Range in Humboldt County.

Nevada sits at the bottom of health care. If you have tried to make an appointment the long wait times and lack of specialty fields is probably not a surprise.

The 160,000-square-foot North Las Vegas warehouse and headquarters of Nevada Restaurant Services, Inc. - parent company of the Dotty's chain of taverns - is a cross between Costco, Home Depot, a slot machine manufacturing plant and a direct-mail house.

The Southern Nevada Immunization & Health Coalition has announced its regional schedule of summer Back-to-School immunization events to help children and their families stay healthy throughout the upcoming school year.

"I'm looking at their eyes and looking at their facial expressions ... I wonder what they're like.

The Comstock History Center will present "One Is Silver, the Other Is Gold: Celebrating 25 Years of Nevada Folklife Apprenticeships" featuring 22 visual artists who have received grant support from the Nevada Arts Council as master or apprentice artists in a variety of folk traditions.

Emergency personnel work at the site of a collision between a pickup truck and a small airplane that was making an emergency landing on Nevada Route 445, about 20 miles north of Reno, on Saturday, July 26, 2014.

My engine crew fills a 100 gallon water bucket for our local helicopter crew. This fire occurred near Wenedover, Nevada - just outside the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division is investigating the Oregon Department of Transportation following two separate incidents in which construction workers were killed on the job this week on northeast Oregon highway projects.

California Highway Patrol officers draw their weapons as they arrest former-Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks after a 20-minute chase in March 2013.

President Obama today signed the Three Kids Mine Remediation and Reclamation Act.

A former Nevada lawmaker who led California police on a high-speed chase on the day he was expelled from the state Assembly has been ordered to two years and eight months in prison.

Transportation industry employers will want to review the new registry and determine what impact the changes may have for their logistics operations.

Sen. Milton Slocum Latham from California pushed the Nevada Mint Act to a vote on his final day in the Senate.

An informational meeting for parents wanting to learn more about the Nevada Performance Academy will take place at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday at VT Williams and Associates, 3470 G.S. Richards Blvd. Parents are asked to RSVP by contacting Colleen Bannister at 775-790-9679 or by email at cobanni@msn.com.