"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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 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. (...)
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 (...)