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A bill creating a state-managed fund to distribute donations and grants to victims of human trafficking has cleared the Nevada Assembly.

The Board of the Governor's Office of Economic Development last Thursday approved tax abatements for nine companies, creating nearly 330 jobs initially and increasing capital investment in Nevada by an additional $200 million.

Jim Grant / Nevada Appeal Western Nevada College graduate Gary Christy admires his Associate of Applied Science degree for computer networking technology.

"Battleborn," the astonishingly wise debut story collection by Claire Vaye Watkins, takes its title from the tattoo-worthy nickname of her home state, Nevada; the stories are set in the beautiful, treacherous territory of the desert, and are populated by characters drawn to its dry washes, their psychotic delusions or lucky-strike fantasies hazily ... (more)

West Valley police have called a 3 p.m. news conference they say will involve "detailed updates" pertaining to the 3 ½-year-old case.

The Nevada delegation had hoped that the Lyon County Economic Development Act, their first priority public lands bill by mutual agreement, would be moving through the House at a little bit faster clip than this.

I have been wrong for decades. I have been one of those Nevadans who believed that the Legislature should meet no more than every two years and for no more than a specific amount of time.

Earlier this year, I wrote about Dr. Sean Steele , an internist who was accused of a brutal sexual assault after a night of drinking in Las Vegas.

We're headed into a wild weekend in Northern Nevada. This weekend the Fallon area will turn its eyes to the skies and to the marshlandswith the annual Spring Wings Bird Festival.

Data released Thursday by the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation shows the jobless rate is down two percentage points year-over-year. It's also down slightly from 9.7% in March.

With fire season already underway across the western United States, it's only a matter of time until Northern Nevada gets its share.

As the Legislature rushes to close its business in the final two weeks of its session, lawmakers and Gov.

Ruth Wherry sat at her daughter's dining table on Wednesday wearing brightly colored scrubs, a stethoscope slung over her shoulders.

Robert Constantion, of Las Vegas, right, is almost at the ticket counter after a nearly four-hour wait at the Lotto Store just inside the California border at Primm, Friday, May 17, 2013.

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.