Federal water officials have made public what they call “necessary steps” 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 year’s 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 Trump’s loss.

President-elect Donald Trump has won his sixth battleground state of the 2024 election, beating Vice President Kamala Harris in Nevada.

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada has won reelection.

After Amendments 3 and 4 failed, some wonder if the supermajority requirement is fair.

Conservationists and a Native American tribe are suing to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an endangered wildflower to extinction, disrupt groundwater flows and threaten cultural resources.

"Red Mirage" is a term that describes Republican candidates doing better in states where day-of voting happens on election night but mail in ballots aren't counted until later. Historically Republicans do better on election day but Democrats fare better in mail-in ballots. In some swing states like Pennsylvania and Nevada mail-in ballots aren't counted until after day-of votes.

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 women’s volleyball match between Nevada and San Jose State on Saturday has been moved from Reno, Nevada, to San Jose, California.

Nevada is once again home to competitive races that could determine control of the White House and the U.S. Senate.

In the remote Nevada desert, Janille and Tom Baker’s hay ranch couldn’t 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 team’s players released an independent statement saying they would “refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes.”.

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 Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.

Nevada is joining a list of states easing access to abortion for more lower-income women.

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.

It’s always hot this time of year in central Arizona, but 2024's endless summer has been especially hot in Phoenix.

Authorities are investigating the death of a woman who was participating in the counterculture festival known as Burning Man in the northern Nevada desert.

Former President Donald Trump will deliver remarks on his “No Tax For Tips” policy proposal at a campaign event in Las Vegas Friday afternoon.

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 workers’ tips.

A criminal complaint says a Nevada man accused of a hate crime admitted he mentioned a “hanging 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 “they have a hanging tree” 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.

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 state’s 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 Jacksonville native and his family spoke to News4JAX about how their strong faith and determination to grow landed them a spot in one of the most popular travel destinations in America.

A strange monolith has been found jutting out of a remote mountain peak near Las Vegas.

So, what do you think about Lawrence’s new deal? Is he worth the money or is it too much for someone who is 20-30 as a starter in Jacksonville?

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.

Former President Donald Trump rallied voters in the scorching heat of Las Vegas.

Nevadans will vote in primaries for Congress and the state legislature on Tuesday.

Last year, we made some predictions on who would play at the now iconic Las Vegas Sphere, and so far the predictions have been correct.

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.

Former football star, actor and acquitted murder defendant O.J. Simpson died Wednesday after a battle with cancer, his family confirmed via X.

Wild horse advocates in Nevada have scored a rare legal victory.

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.

U.S. marriages have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels with nearly 2.1 million in 2022.

U.S. senators have declined to block the sale of F-16s to Turkey.

Counties across Nevada are struggling to find poll workers in a pivotal election year.

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.

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has moved its legal corporate home from Delaware to Nevada.

Former President Donald Trump has easily won Thursday’s 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 Nevada’s Republican presidential caucuses after he was the only major candidate to participate.

Nikki Haley is looking for votes in California after suffering a symbolic snub in Nevada's primary.

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.

Secretary Mayorkas will participate in the National Football League’s press conference on the safety and security of employees, players, and fans during Super Bowl LVIII at the Super Bowl Media Center; United States Secret Service (USSS) Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service’s Las Vegas Field Office Karon Ransom will also participate.

Even without Donald Trump on Nevada’s Republican ballot, Nikki Haley was still denied her first victory.

President Joe Biden has easily won Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary in Nevada, his second lopsided victory in four days over a mostly unknown field of challengers.

The top vote-getter in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary in Nevada wasn’t former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, the only major candidate on the ballot still in the race.

Nikki Haley has been swamped in Nevada’s symbolic Republican presidential primary as GOP voters resoundingly picked the “none of these candidates” option on the ballot.

Nevada’s attorney general has launched a go-it-alone legal fight accusing TikTok, Snapchat and Meta of creating what one lawsuit calls “an addiction machine” 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 won’t reconsider former “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse’s request to dismiss an indictment that accuses him of leading a cult, taking underage wives and sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls.

Almost every U.S. state has cut taxes in some way in the past three years.

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 “Dances With Wolves” 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.

Donald Trump called out three of Nevada’s fake electors during a rally in Reno.

After U2 played spectacular shows at the newly minted Las Vegas Sphere, another classic rock band will take the stage to deliver an incredible show in technicolor visuals.

The Oakland Athletics’ move to Las Vegas has been approved by Major League Baseball team owners in a 30-0 vote.

Nevada’s 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 — Atlantic City's Resorts casino — has died.

Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo is criticizing his state party’s plan to forge ahead with a caucus despite the state-run primary occurring two days prior.

Nevada is a pivotal early state on the 2024 election calendar, but it’s gotten much less attention than leadoff Iowa and New Hampshire.

They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but if I was visiting the Las Vegas Sphere, I’d want to tell everyone I knew about it.

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 state’s office will hold a presidential primary for Republican voters, despite the Nevada GOP saying they’ll 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 they’ll 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 Trump’s push to bend state Republican parties to his will — and gain an advantage in his effort to return to the White House — 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.

No. 6 Southern California blew out Nevada 66-14 for its second consecutive win to open the season.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl 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 Trump’s administration is running for U.S. Senate in Nevada.

The FBI says man accused of kidnapping a Seattle woman and holding her in a homemade cell in Oregon had a list that included a chilling reminder to go after women who wouldn’t be missed to avoid “any kind of an investigation."

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 region’s 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.

Eleven wild horses have died in the first 10 days of a big mustang roundup in Nevada.

Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown is running for the U.S. Senate in Nevada again.

The state of Nevada has reached a $285 million settlement with Walgreens regarding the pharmacy chain’s role in the opioid epidemic.

The latest challenge to lithium mining in Nevada in the push for cleaner energy comes from a place where no opposition has arisen before: space.

The small town of Elko in rural northeastern Nevada is being invaded by a swarm of blood-red crickets.