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Nevada Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson, R-Las Vegas, left, talks with Sen.

Presidential candidate John Edwards toasts Star Hotel bartender Natalie Carter with a house specialty, a Picon Punch, while making a campaign stop in Elko Thursday, Jan.

Bills requesting more than $88 million in supplemental and one-shot appropriations -- some of them not included in the governor's proposed budget -- are being introduced in the Nevada Legislature this week.

Nevada's unemployment dropped to 9.6 percent in April. That's down nearly 2 percentage points over the year.

The numbers sum up the frenzy that has taken over the Golden State since it became the newest in the nation to join the madness over Powerball, which saw its jackpot soar Thursday to $550 million.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Fisherman Dave Hamel, center, reels in a Lahontan cutthroat trout at Pyramid Lake in Nevada on April 18, 2013.

SRJ13 was approved Thursday by the Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections.

The Clark County Department of Air Quality has issued a dust and smoke advisory that is in effect from Thursday afternoon through Friday afternoon.

Kindergarten teacher Julie Cohen teaches her students how to ask questions with a raise of hands on their first day of class Monday, August 27, 2012, at Cambeiro Elementary School in Las Vegas.

This combination of Associated Press file photos shows from left, O.J. Simspon on Oct.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. In this April 24, 2004, file photo, former Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa speaks in support of a "legislative scorecard" presented by the Nevada Conservation League at a news conference in Reno.

Legislators today recommended shifting money from northern colleges to southern colleges almost immediately, rejecting Gov.

From his spacious office in the Silver State's historic Capitol, Gov. Brian Sandoval keeps one eye focused on Washington, D.C., as he attempts to mitigate the political and economic minefield that has become the implementation of Obamacare.

On one hand, Angie Wilson said she's looking forward to when the health care overhaul takes full effect in 2014 - it'll allow the northern Nevada tribal health clinic she directs to maximize its limited resources.

An investigator leaves the scene of a double homicide in Fernley, Nevada, two of five deaths in or near the community on Monday.

A 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister in their Central California home is due in juvenile court Wednesday after his attorney said the boy had been charged with murder.

Tribune file photo) Dave Baker, a third-generation Snake Valley rancher, looks at the Stateline Spring which is a critical source of water for farmers and ranchers near the towns of Baker, Nev., and Utah's Garrison and EskDale.

Potential witnesses in the trial of a former Nevada developer and high-powered lobbyist accused of making illegal campaign contributions to Sen.

The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada released a handful of videos from last week's testimony regarding a resolution that would repeal language from Nevada's constitution that excludes same sex couples and replaces it with language recognizing all marriages, regardless of the couple's gender.

On Saturday, Native Americans representing the Confederate Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Wells Colony, Elko/TeMoke Tribe, Battle Mountain and Yomba Shoshone along with Tribal members from the Northern Ute, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Navajo, Cherokee and non-natives began a run/walk from Wells to Caliente, traveling about 272 miles in protest of ... (more)