Nevada News

The Nevada Transportation Department has met a deadline for seeking bids for $70 million in road projects, ranging from highway repaving to historic V&T Railway work and an antelope and deer overpass, being funded by federal stimulus dollars.

Curtis McCall, left, of solar light company Tytre Inc. speaks with Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., at an alternative energy fair at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve on Tuesday.

The Arizona Department of Transportation says road construction around Hoover Dam will be halted over the July 4 holiday weekend along U.S. 93.

One by one, potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates are fading away or facing challenges.

Nevada's AmeriCorps volunteer program is threatened because Gov. Jim Gibbons and lawmakers didn't approve $365,000 in state funds to qualify for $7.5 million in federal money.

A 33-year-old Clark County man infected with the swine flu virus died Sunday, Southern Nevada health officials said.

Nevada wildlife commissioners voted Saturday to shorten the state's bobcat trapping season amid concerns by wildlife advocates that the fur's popularity might be causing overtrapping of the species.

Nobody in the business world has emerged unscathed from the financial carnage wreaked by the global recession.

Here's are highlights of new laws taking effect July 1 in Nevada: - AB10 protects nurses against retaliation for disclosing problems that endanger patients at hospitals or other medical facilities; and SB229 seeks to ensure that foreign-trained doctors who get visas to work in "medically underserved" areas actually provide care in those areas.

The cardiologist being sought for questioning in the investigation of Michael Jackson's death was hired by a concert promoter to accompany the entertainer to London for his comeback concert series, a Jackson advisor said today.

Site first fight for LV resort: Fontainebleau creditors want bankruptcy case moved out of Miami Jun.

Nevada's latest voter registration figures show a drop of nearly 120,000 voters, to just over 1.3 million, since the November 2008 elections - with Democrats maintaining their solid advantage over Republicans.

Several northern Nevada casinos companies controlled by businessman Hal Holder Sr.

Governor Mike Beebe received notice of the federal move Tuesday night. His office had requested assistance about two weeks ago to help with counties recovering from May flooding and storms.

U.S. Sen. John Ensign's popularity has taken a hit since his extramarital affair became known, but most Nevada voters don't think he should resign, a poll said Sunday.

Trees are turning brown along in the Lake Tahoe basin, and experts think it's because of a combination of drought and road salt.

The Associated Press 6 comments Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. speaks at a news conference at the Lloyd D. George Federal building,... Sen.

Consumers face slightly higher sales taxes, businesses' annual fees will double and larger employers will shoulder higher payroll taxes when key elements of the 2009 Legislature's patchwork plan to raise $781 million in taxes takes effect July 1. Some consumers may find it tough to spot the tax increases, unless they're buying big-ticket items, and ...

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. speaks at a news conference at the Lloyd D. George Federal building Tuesday in Las Vegas.

Nevada's unemployment rate hit a record 11.3 percent statewide in May, the highest since figures started being kept in 1976, according to a state report Wednesday.