Nevada News

Spots remain in next week's Wolf Pack basketball skills camp, which is led by Nevada coach David Carter and his staff.

The funds will support one at-risk school for an entire year. The bank also awarded a $10,000 grant to the Food Bank of Northern Nevada to support the Backpack Program.

The term RINO is usually used to describe the late Gov. Kenny Guinn because of one conservative apostasy.

Poll shows opposition to other types of levies Somebody call Oscar Wilde. Nevada's casino and mine owners could use the Irish writer to sell voters on his old adage that everything popular is wrong.

State lawmakers expressed frustration and anger Friday after an international research firm defaulted on a tax study, leaving legislators without an updated playbook as they face a budget deficit that could top $3 billion going into the 2011 session.

Claimants eligible to have extended unemployment benefits reactivated can expect to receive a letter in the mail next week.

Reno - According to the latest Rasmussen poll, Democratic candidate for Nevada governor, Rory Reid, managed to reach his highest point yet with 40% of voters polled saying they'd vote for the son of Sen.

Nevada's development as a state has come at such break-neck speed that characters important to that growth have had a tendency to get lost on the road to the future.

The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles imposes penalties and fines for driving without a license.

Tickets are on sale for the 26th annual Taste for Art, scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug.

What is the mood in a state where almost one in five people is out of a job or underemployed? Where you've most likely held a foreclosure notice in your hand or know someone who has? Where nobody knows when the good times will return? In Nevada, a new poll suggests people variously are angry, pessimistic, dismayed, anxious, fearful, skeptical and ...

A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a Nevada law that bars legal brothels in some rural areas of Nevada from advertising in Las Vegas, Reno and other places where prostitution is illegal.

Social justice advocates in northern Nevada are trying to capitalize on publicity over Arizona's controversial immigration law by launching a voter registration drive in Reno's Hispanic neighborhoods.

The Nevada Supreme Court has struck down a portion of the state's ethics law as unconstitutional in a case involving Sparks Councilman Michael Carrigan.

Former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn has been buried in his boyhood hometown of Exeter, Calif., after a graveside ceremony attended by more than 150 family members and friends.

With Nevada facing a projected $3.5 billion deficit, the 2011 Legislature may have no choice but to cut the state's popular Millennium Scholarship program, Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie, D-Reno, said Thursday on a statewide political program.

Early evening newscasts the night of ex-Gov. Kenny Guinn's death last week were all that in the first-blush coverage: ■ KLAS-TV, Channel 8: Exemplars of professionalism -- mostly.

Why is it not against the law in Nevada to drive and talk on the cell phone at the same time? Why doesn't our Legislature consider this? It is dangerous and unnecessary.

California declared an epidemic of pertussis this summer. In 2008, unvaccinated children contributed to measles outbreaks in California, Illinois, Washington, Arizona and New York.

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada today gave its final approval to power utility NV Energy's integrated resource plan.