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Federal water officials have made public what they call ānecessary stepsā for the seven states and multiple tribes that rely on the Colorado River to meet an August 2026 deadline for deciding how to manage the waterway in the future.
Local officials are beginning to certify the results of this yearās presidential election in a process that so far has been playing out quietly, in stark contrast to the tumultuous certification period four years ago that followed then-President Donald Trumpās loss.
Conservationists and a Native American advocacy group are suing to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an endangered wildflower to extinction, disrupt groundwater flows and threaten cultural resources.
The manager of a key swing county in northern Nevada is out on medical leave, a departure announced just days before the election.
For the first time under President Joe Biden, a federal permit for a new lithium mine in the U.S. has been approved.
The location of a womenās volleyball match between Nevada and San Jose State on Saturday has been moved from Reno, Nevada, to San Jose, California.
In the remote Nevada desert, Janille and Tom Bakerās hay ranch couldnāt survive without immigrant guest workers who come every year from Mexico.
The University of Nevada has made it clear that its Oct_ 26 volleyball match against San Jose State will go on as scheduled after the teamās players released an independent statement saying they would ārefuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes.ā.
California and Nevada voters will decide in November if they want to ban forced prison labor by removing language from their state constitutions rooted in the legacy of chattel slavery.
Vice President Kamala Harris has used her appearances in Los Angeles and Las Vegas on Sunday to poke at Republican Donald Trump over crowd sizes, his refusal to debate again and his privileged background.
The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevadaās Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.
As demographics shift, advocates from Las Vegas to Alaska are fighting to make voting accessible for citizens who speak different languages.
The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation have long grappled with contaminants in the soil and water.
The remote Duck Valley reservation that straddles Nevada and Idaho has battled toxic contaminants on its land for decades.
An autopsy report shows that a Nevada prisoner died after he was pepper-sprayed, shackled and held face down.
Authorities are investigating the death of a woman who was participating in the counterculture festival known as Burning Man in the northern Nevada desert.
While the team had to deal with periods of rain during Wednesdayās game, conditions for Saturdayās game in Williamsport are looking much better! Boerne plays at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on KSAT 12.
Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will continue to live with less water next year from the Colorado River after the U.S. government Thursday announced water cuts preserving the status quo.
The federal government is expected to announce water cuts soon that would affect some of the 40 million people reliant on the Colorado River.
If nothing else, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris agree on one thing, at least: Both say they want to eliminate federal taxes on workersā tips.
A criminal complaint says a Nevada man accused of a hate crime admitted he mentioned a āhanging tree" during a verbal altercation with a Black man near Reno.
Three people have been arrested and charged in connection with a verbal altercation last week in Virginia City, Nevada, during which a Black man said a racial slur was directed at him by a man who also said āthey have a hanging treeā for people like him.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee that sought to block Mississippi from counting absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after after it.
The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Portland Trailblazers 83-77 to open the NBA 2K25 Summer League.
A prolonged heat wave has baked Las Vegas in its record fifth consecutive day of temperatures sizzling at 115 degrees or greater.
A Nevada judge has dismissed a criminal indictment against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the stateās 2020 presidential election.
A strange monolith found jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas has been taken down by authorities.
A strange monolith has been found jutting out of a remote mountain peak near Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Sphere will be giving southern California vibes later this year when the Eagles take over the iconic venue for a four-weekend residency that starts on Friday, Sept. 20.
President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is calling on Republicans to drop lawsuits targeting mail voting now that Donald Trump has embraced the method.
Nevada election officials can start tabulating in-person Election Day votes as they come in, rather than waiting for polls to close.
Abortion access advocates in Nevada say they have submitted almost twice the number of petition signatures needed to qualify a measure for the November ballot that would enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution.
The Republican National Committee is suing to stop Nevada from being able to count mail ballots received in election offices after Election Day.
The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the U.S. That's assuming it can withstand anticipated legal challenges from conservationists who fear it will lead to the extinction of an endangered Nevada wildflower near the California line.
Nevada's Supreme Court has handed setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion activists in two new rulings.
It will be a very tiny big-game hunt for one of the largest animals in North America.
DaRon Holmes II and seventh-seeded Dayton staged a huge March Madness rally, closing with a 24-4 run to erase a 17-point deficit and beat 10th-seeded Nevada 63-60 in the West Region.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is suing the county that includes Las Vegas over its new ban on standing or stopping while crossing pedestrian bridges on the Strip.
A man who leaped over a judicial bench and attacked a Nevada judge during a sentencing hearing in Las Vegas last month that was captured in a courtroom video that went viral has now been indicted for attempted murder.
Elon Muskās brain implant company Neuralink has moved its legal corporate home from Delaware to Nevada.
Former President Donald Trump has easily won Thursdayās Nevada caucuses, the second Republican presidential contest held in the state in just three days, but the only one that will have an official impact on the race for the GOP nomination.
Donald Trump has won Nevadaās Republican presidential caucuses after he was the only major candidate to participate.
Right before Las Vegas hosts the Super Bowl this weekend, a man was arrested for climbing to the top of the Las Vegas Sphere on Wednesday afternoon, according to reports.
Even without Donald Trump on Nevadaās Republican ballot, Nikki Haley was still denied her first victory.
President Joe Biden has easily won Tuesdayās Democratic presidential primary in Nevada, his second lopsided victory in four days over a mostly unknown field of challengers.
The top vote-getter in Tuesdayās Republican presidential primary in Nevada wasnāt former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, the only major candidate on the ballot still in the race.
Nikki Haley has been swamped in Nevadaās symbolic Republican presidential primary as GOP voters resoundingly picked the ānone of these candidatesā option on the ballot.
Nevadaās attorney general has launched a go-it-alone legal fight accusing TikTok, Snapchat and Meta of creating what one lawsuit calls āan addiction machineā that exploits children too young to have self-control.
Nevada's Republican delegates are essentially locked in for Donald Trump weeks before voters make their choice.
A panel of Nevada Supreme Court justices wonāt reconsider former āDances With Wolvesā actor Nathan Chasing Horseās request to dismiss an indictment that accuses him of leading a cult, taking underage wives and sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls.
Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting Nevada and South Carolina next month, two of the earliest states on the Democratic presidential calendar.
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors in Las Vegas can proceed with their criminal case against āDances With Wolvesā actor Nathan Chasing Horse.
The man who will oversee elections in one rural county in Nevada next year has pleaded not guilty, along with five fellow Republicans, on charges that they submitted false paperwork claiming Donald Trump had won the state in 2020.
Google announced Tuesday that an advanced geothermal project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada electric grid to feed Google data centers there.
Nevadaās attorney general is investigating six Republican electors who submitted paperwork to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
Federal accident investigators want automakers to install systems on all new vehicles that warn drivers when they go over the speed limit.
Steve Norton, who ran the first U.S. gambling facility outside Nevada ā Atlantic City's Resorts casino ā has died.
Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo is criticizing his state partyās plan to forge ahead with a caucus despite the state-run primary occurring two days prior.
State and local health departments across the U.S. recently lost the final two years of a $1 billion federal investment to treat and prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
Nevada is a pivotal early state on the 2024 election calendar, but itās gotten much less attention than leadoff Iowa and New Hampshire.
Former Vice President Mike Pence will skip the Nevada caucuses run by the state Republican Party and will instead compete in a state-run primary contest.
The Nevada secretary of stateās office will hold a presidential primary for Republican voters, despite the Nevada GOP saying theyāll only honor the results of their party-run caucus to choose the GOP presidential nominee two days later.
Scientists charged with making sure the United States' aging stockpile of nuclear weapons are good to go, if needed, say theyāll start shipping key components to the Nevada desert next year.
The Nevada Republican Party has approved new rules for their presidential caucus that many suspect are meant to help former President Donald Trump.
Former President Donald Trumpās push to bend state Republican parties to his will ā and gain an advantage in his effort to return to the White House ā is coming to a head in Nevada.
A Nevada grand jury has indicted a man on felony charges that he threatened to carry out a mass shooting in June at a Stanley Cup Final hockey game on the Las Vegas Strip.
The traffic jam leaving the Burning Man festival has eased up considerably as the exodus from the mud-caked Nevada desert entered a second day following massive rain that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded there for days.
New Mexico Attorney General RaĆŗl Torrez and 13 other top prosecutors from around the U.S. are uniting in support of efforts to compensate people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing.
Federal officials said Tuesday they will ease water cuts for Western states reliant on the Colorado River next year.
A dermatologist who was ambassador to Iceland during Donald Trumpās administration is running for U.S. Senate in Nevada.
Authorities say a man who posed as an undercover police officer kidnapped a woman in Seattle, drove her hundreds of miles to his home in Oregon and locked her in a cinder block cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape.
Firefighters aided by rain have made progress fighting a massive blaze that swept through the California desert into Nevada and is threatening the regionās famous spiky Joshua trees.
Casino mogul Steve Wynn has ended his long legal fight with Nevada gambling regulators over claims of workplace sexual misconduct by paying a $10 million fine.
Air-conditioned casinos offer a welcome respite for people visiting Las Vegas as the city is hit by an intense heat wave that's put nearly one-third of Americans under heat advisories and warnings.
Federal officials have decided to reconsider the 2021 environmental review that cleared the way for construction of a geothermal power plant in Nevada where an endangered toad lives.
