Nevada News

Nearly 80 percent of eligible Nevadans are now registered to vote, according to the secretary of state's office.

The vanity license plate on William Junge's Chevy Tahoe is shown with years of correspondence with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles in the garage of his Las Vegas home Wednesday.

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that Nevada will get more than $1.2 million in federal stimulus funds to assess and clean up underground storage tank petroleum leaks.

The aircrash that killed entrepreneur Steve Fossett, famed for his daredevil aerial feats, probably was caused by downdrafts that exceeded the ability of his small plane to recover before slamming into a mountainside, federal safety officials said Thursday.Fossett, 63, disappeared on Sept.

Nevada casinos won $889 million from gamblers in May, down 8.3 percent compared with their May 2008 win, according to a state report released Thursday.

A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency refused to renew on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.

The director of the Nevada Department of Corrections has asked for another month to find ways to give guards and other staff members a furlough mandated by the state Legislature.

Five men accused of being members of a white supremacist gang were found guilty Monday on federal racketeering, drug and firearms charges stemming from what prosecutors called a reign of intimidation and violence in Nevada prisons.

Sun, Jul 5, 2009 Jim Gibbons has failed to exercise any real leadership during his tenure as governor.

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.