Nevada

Authorities said 31 cows died in the northern Alabama town of Berlin during Saturday’s severe weather when lightning struck the tree they were hiding under

Speaking to Nevada Republicans for the first time as a presidential candidate, DeSantis made no direct mention of the former president’s legal woes

The first political rally of the president’s reelection campaign is being held at a union gathering in Pennsylvania, punctuating just how much the president is counting on labor support to carry him to a second term

The issue pits Nevada’s powerful tourism industry, including trade unions, against a growing chorus of mostly progressive groups that, throughout the country, are raising concerns about use of tax dollars to finance sports stadiums

At a hearing Monday, lawmakers are considering whether to allow up to $380 million in incentives that include state tax credits and county bonds to build a home for the Oakland Athletics

The plan would conserve an additional 3 million acre-feet of water through 2026, when current guidelines for how the river is shared expire. About half the cuts would come by the end of 2024

Committee hearings and back-door discussion for the bills were animated by questions over whether the legislation starting at 4 grams would repeat ‘war on drug’ policies criminalizing low-level users

The 24-year-old former first-round NFL draft pick avoided trial with a plea deal on Wednesday that is expected to result in a sentence of three to 10 years in state prison

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the state’s congressional delegation oppose putting the storage complex in the state. They fear New Mexico will become the nation’s dumping ground for spent nuclear fuel

The so-called safe injection sites are places where people can use heroin and other illegal drugs and be revived if they take too much

All of Nevada’s elected federal lawmakers and four House members from California are on board with a Brightline West proposal to spend more than $10 billion for a system to whisk passengers along the Interstate 15 corridor

Twenty-five U.S. jurisdictions have legalized the drug, while others have only decriminalized. If you’re traveling, make sure to avoid legal issues

The Biden administration floated two ideas this week for how Western states and Native American tribes could reduce their water use from the dwindling Colorado River

A multidecade drought in the West intensified by climate change, rising demand and overuse has sent water levels at key reservoirs along the river to unprecedented lows

The holiday was proclaimed by president Barack Obama in 2014 and it’s observed on several states

The Democratic president is also initiating a national marine sanctuary in U.S. waters near the Pacific Remote Islands southwest of Hawaii

Proponents say prosecutors and police need more tools to help with the fight because fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are so deadly

For a West that has struggled with long-term drought, forecasters say all the moisture isn’t enough to make a noticeable dent in the nation’s largest reservoirs on the Colorado River

Family, friends and police officers will gather Thursday in Las Vegas to remember Herman Moody, who became a police officer in 1946 when the city was still heavily segregated

The homeless and those without electricity were at special risk from the cold, the weather service said

Tesla is set for over $10 billion in capital investments in northern Nevada between 2014 and 2028

Democrats elevated the state to the top of their presidential primary calendar, leapfrogging Iowa and New Hampshire

Embracing election conspiracy theories was a political albatross for Republicans in states that weren’t completely red last year

More than 120,000 California utility customers remained without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us

The victims included the pilot, a flight nurse, a flight paramedic, a patient and a patient’s family member

Four environmental groups want US District Judge Miranda Du in Reno to temporarily halt any work at the project near the Oregon border

The former ‘Dances With Wolves’ actor is accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls for decades