Nevada News

Today the Nevada Department of Education announced prices for state-approved High School Equivalency assessments to take effect January 2, 2014.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had some choice words for fellow Nevadan Rep. Joe Heck, a Republican who might challenge him in 2016, calling him "a lightweight" and dismissing him as a less viable candidate than Sharron Angle.

Please don't take the Bay Area news off Channel 11. I have watched it for 32 years and enjoy the information we get.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talks with students during a visit to Walter Bracken Elementary School Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013.

HealthCare Partners Nevada, a leading physician-run network of primary, specialty and urgent care providers in Southern Nevada, announced three of its nurses received awards at the prestigious 2013 Nurse of the Year event, recently hosted by the March of Dimes in Las Vegas.

Dec. 04 -- Nevada's college graduates have among the lowest student loan debt in the country, according to a national report released Wednesday.

Seven community development entities, or investment funds, won a combined $200 million in state tax credits meant to support economic development and job growth in Nevada.

Nevada's 2nd U.S. District Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, has been appointed to the House Appropriations Committee - a committee that helps control the purse strings in Congress.

Aspen Financial Services took the damage-control strategy of attacking the messenger to an outrageous new level.

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Long waits and bad attitudes. Those are the most common complaints of veterans who shared their experiences at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities in the Las Vegas Valley after reading about Sandi Niccum's ordeal in Thursday's Review-Journal.

A winter storm dumped up to 5 inches of snow on the Reno area Tuesday, snarling city streets during the morning commute and slowing Interstate 80 traffic over the Sierra as the system moved across the northern half of Nevada.

Nevada neurosurgeon Aury Nagy, MD, FAANS, has opened Nevada Brain & Spine Care with offices in Las Vegas, Henderson and Bullhead City Arizona.

I'll tell you up front that until this week, I had never put an egg in the microwave before, and to... Snowy roads in Reno: Reno Gazette-Journal photographer Andy Barron got this video of people coping with snowy roads in Reno.

We have become aware that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a temporary suspension for the trading of our company's securities, citing the adequacy and accuracy of information provided by ourselves and others in regards to our assets, operations and financial conditions as the reason for our trading suspension.

DEL MAR, Calif. , Dec. 3, 2013 -- NEVADA GOLD CORP -- We have become aware that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a temporary suspension for the trading of our company's securities, citing the adequacy and accuracy of information provided by ourselves and others in regards to our assets, operations and financial ... (more)

Matthew Hart's other books include Diamond: A Journey To The Heart Of An Obsession and The Irish Game: A True Story Of Crime And Art .

Nevada officials have renamed the state teacher of the year award after the man who died trying to stop a shooter at Sparks Middle School .

Native Nevadan Terry Gialketsis celebrated the excitement and history of her state, but seemed always to take the greatest joy in helping those in need in her longtime hometown of Las Vegas.

Mining in Nevada is an industry that has been thriving despite the economic instability of the past several years.