By Mark Hernandez The Nevada Independent Since marijuana sales have been legalized in Nevada, the illegal cultivation sites that have been destroyed has fallen from more than 150 in 2012 […]
News
How a Stargazing-Themed Train Ride is Boosting Tourism in Rural Nevada
By Jackie Valley The Nevada Independent On a chilly fall evening, a train conductor clad in a flat-topped hat and gold-buttoned suit jacket inhaled deeply and delivered his customary greeting. […]
Once Seen as Frivolous, Wildlife Crossing Now Seen as a Way to Save Bucks — and Drivers
By Daniel RothbergThe Nevada Independent Every year, thousands of mule deer make the southeasterly trek from the snow-loaded Jarbidge Mountains to the Pequop Mountains across I-80 between Wells and West […]
Official: Solving Wild Horse Problem will take $5B, 15 Years
By Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO — It will take $5 billion and 15 years to get an overpopulation of wild horses under control on federal lands across the West, […]
Trump Campaign Snubs GOP’s Amodei After Impeachment Remarks
By Michelle L. Price Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada appears to have lost a spot helming President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in the […]
Whistleblower Reinstated After Nevada Grazing Dispute
By Scott SonnerAssociated Press RENO — A longtime government range specialist who claimed he was fired in retaliation for repeatedly reporting illegal livestock grazing on federal land in eastern Nevada […]
Asylum Seekers Should Prove Their Claims
Nevada’s Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford joined with other attorneys general this past week in filing a friend of the court brief in a case challenging another Trump administration rule […]
State Briefs
Associated Press 2 Hurt in Helicopter Crash at Red Rock Canyon LAS VEGAS — Authorities say two people are hospitalized with unspecified injures after a helicopter crash off a Nevada […]
Lawyers want Nevada to ban executions of mentally ill
By Scott Sonner RENO, — The American Bar Association wants the Nevada Supreme Court to rule that people suffering from severe mental illness should be ineligible for the death penalty. […]
Eureka man dies after crash on US 50
Eureka Sentinel A Eureka County man lost his life in a vehicle crash Saturday morning just before 3 a.m. The Eureka County Communications Center was notified of a vehicle crash on […]


