Those with camping reservations were still able to access the park while it was closed, but they weren’t permitted to step out of the campground, according to Nevada State Parks’ Facebook account.
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Since 2002, water storage across the West’s Great Basin has decreased rapidly, according to a new study using NASA satellites.
A toll plaza has been built between a security checkpoint and Hoover Dam, but when it will be activated and what — if anything — will be charged is still unknown.
Some problems on the road are caused by the heat, but people also need to service their vehicles, a supervisor with NDOT’S Freeway Service Patrol says.
A plan to sell more than a dozen Nevada Vons and Albertsons stores could bring a new grocery operator into the region.
The 54-mile high-speed rail line would serve as a connector between the planned Brightline West Victor Valley Station and the California High-Speed Rail in Palmdale, California.
The park ranger who fatally shot a person at Valley of Fire State Park was not wearing a body camera, according to a Nevada State Parks spokesman.
The body was discovered in May 2022 at Hemenway Harbor, and the Clark County coroner’s office has said the man’s death was a homicide.
Curtis Springer, a self-proclaimed medicine man who built a health resort in the area, named it Zzyzx because he “wanted to have the last word,” he told The New York Times in 1970.
A man who attacked a person with a hatchet at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in 2018 was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A park ranger shot and killed a person at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, officials say.
Nevadans also face inconsistent policies when it comes to paying for court records, the study co-sponsored by the Las Vegas Review-Journal found.
The Nevada Democrat, who is facing Republican Sam Brown in the November election, drew more than 33,000 first-time contributors, her campaign said.
More than a dozen Nevada Albertsons may be sold if the company’s sale to Kroger is approved, and the companies have now specified which they will be.
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