"Vegas is where you get married, Reno is where you get divorced," as the saying goes in the US state of Nevada.
State law allowing some legal cases to be conducted more quickly and discreetly than elsewhere in the US means this relatively small city (...)
Democrats will hold onto control of the US Senate after Senator Catherine Cortez Masto won re-election in Nevada, according to projections, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden.
Still, Republicans remained close to winning control of the (...)
Swede David Lingmerth fed off his friendly pairing with American Robert Streb to charge to a clubhouse lead at the end of the truncated first day of the Barracuda Championship in Reno on Thursday.
Lingmerth made a blistering start with nine birdies (...)
Apple announced plans Wednesday for a $1 billion expansion of its massive data center east of Reno, doubling its investment and roughly tripling its workforce at the technology campus where company officials expect to hire 100 additional (...)
A 41-year-old citizen of India was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in a US prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiring while living in northern Nevada to plot terror strikes in his home country on the border with Pakistan.
US District Judge Larry (...)
More winter snow and rain pummeled the West on Thursday as the first in a series of expected storms soaked morning commuters in much of California, dumped 18 more inches of snow in the Sierra Nevada and closed schools in Oregon, AP reported.
The (...)
An atmospheric river of moisture swept parts of California and Nevada on Tuesday with another bout of heavy rains and snow, swelling streams to flood stage and piling up wind-blown snow drifts several feet high in the mountains.
The National Weather (...)
A trio of wind-whipped wildfires burning along the Sierra Nevada destroyed 22 homes north of Carson City, forced hundreds of evacuations at Lake Tahoe and temporarily closed a major highway connecting Reno to the mountain lake.
Nevada Gov. Brian (...)
Qa'dah 9, 1435, Sep 4, 2014, SPA -- Police in Reno, Nevada said 13 people were hurt at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, when a chemical reaction caused what's being called a flash, UPI reported.
Nine of those people, including eight (...)
Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about one-third the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, scientists said (...)
A Nevada man paralyzed in a 2010 snowmobiling accident has reached the South Pole, traveling about 75 miles (120 kilometers) in sub-zero temperatures over two weeks to complete the trip on the 100th anniversary of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott's trek (...)
A vintage World War Two fighter plane crashed near the grandstand at a Nevada air race on Friday, killing at least two people, including the elderly pilot, and injuring more than 50 others, officials said, according to Reuters.
At least 15 people (...)
The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office says at least eight people have died in severe storms that raked across the state.
Spokeswoman Cherokee Ballard said Wednesday morning that at least five people, including a young child, are dead in counties (...)
A state official said an overnight storm system that spawned tornadoes in several Midwest states killed a fourth person in western Arkansas, bringing the total death toll to 14, AP reported.
Renee Preslar, a spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department (...)
Awwal 17, 1432 H/April 21, 2011, SPA -- President Barack Obama said on Thursday the U.S. attorney general was assembling a team to root out any fraud and manipulation in the oil markets that might be contributing to higher U.S. gasoline prices, (...)
Awwal 30, 1432 H/March 5, 2011, SPA -- Authorities say a man who was injured after plunging nearly 200 feet (60 meters) into a rural Nevada mine shaft has died, according to AP.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokesman Doran Sanchez says the (...)
A federal jury has acquitted a former Nevada sheriff's deputy of bribery charges after she was accused of accepting nearly $10,000 in gifts to give special treatment to the jailed founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video empire. Former sheriff's Sgt. (...)
Yet another snowstorm pummeled parts of the American West today, snarling post-holiday traffic and darkening lights on Christmas trees, and freezing rain covered some Midwest highways with a dangerous sheet of ice, according to AP.
Winter storm (...)
A Reno artist will be making his international debut, having been invited to exhibit his work in a juried art competition in Italy.
He won't be going abroad, however, to bask in the aura of great Italian masters. Instead, this artist will remain at (...)
Fire managers worried Tuesday that
lightning could spark more wildfires in the West, where
hundreds of square miles of land have been blackened, as
thunderstorms also threatened flash flooding in burned-over
areas, AP reported.
A flash flood (...)
An 8,000-acre wildfire forced hundreds of people in the town of Winnemucca to leave their homes, one of more than a dozen blazes that charred a combined 55 square miles in northern Nevada, the Associated Press reported.
The blaze was among a series (...)