Fire officials are calling an intense Las Vegas, Nev., apartment blaze that killed one woman and injured another accidental. Las Vegas fire spokesman Tim Szymanski says careless smoking couldn’t be ruled out in the two-alarm fire a little before 9 …
Authorities say a veteran Las Vegas traffic officer has been suspended without pay following his arrest on felony fraud charges in a workers’ compensation case. Police said in a statement Friday that 46-year-old John Allen Wilson was relieved of duty …
The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that a distracted driver in a truck with bad brakes was the probable cause of a fiery collision with an Amtrak passenger train that left six dead in northern Nevada last year. On …
The director of the Nevada Department of Transportation says one way to curb traffic deaths is to enact a tougher seat belt law. NDOT director Rudy Malfabon says in Clark County alone, 88 people have been killed in traffic accidents …
Investigators are searching for the cause of a fire that caused an estimated $1 million in damage to a Las Vegas, Nev., warehouse early Sunday morning. Clark County spokeswoman Stacey Welling says it took firefighters about 30 minutes to put …
Reno, Nev., police are looking for the culprits who threw furniture off an overpass onto a street, causing a traffic accident. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that police think a group of people may have been filming themselves tossing items off …
Scientists say a forest submerged on the bottom of a Sierra Nevada lake holds evidence of a massive drought hundreds of years ago. As Nevada and much of the country endures one of the worst drought years in recent memory, …
Nevada Senator Harry Reid and Washoe County Sheriff Michael Haley are rolling out a special communications vehicle that will help officials set up a mobile command center during a disaster. The so-called Critical Incident Response Vehicle was unveiled yesterday in …
Organizers of the Reno National Championship Air Races, in Nevada, cleared a major hurdle Thursday in their bid to continue the annual event this fall, winning approval of a special one-year permit and moving closer to securing the necessary $100 …
A Florida skier has sued the owner of Heavenly Mountain Resort on Lake Tahoe’s south shore, claiming she was seriously injured when an employee on a snowboard crashed into her last January. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Miami-area paramedic …