Despite a slight increase in pedestrian deaths, the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety says the number of people killed in traffic accidents in Nevada plunged in 2011 and will end the year at slightly more than half of the record …
Reno residents victimized by last month’s big wildfire have another week to get information and make applications for federal disaster loans at a special office set up in town. The U.S. Small Business Administration says it will close the temporary …
Fire officials say about 500 students evacuated safely after a holiday decoration on a teacher’s desk ignited at a private school in Las Vegas. Las Vegas fire spokesman Tim Szymanski there were no injuries in the 9 a.m. Tuesday fire, …
Las Vegas police will pay $83,000 to a tourist who alleged officers used excessive force and broke his ankle when he was arrested while trying to stop an argument between two people on the Las Vegas Strip. The Las Vegas …
Las Vegas, Nev., fire officials say arson may be behind an early Thanksgiving morning fire that caused $20,000 in damages to a vacant house. Firefighters responded just after midnight to the blaze in the 4900 block of Glory Lane, near …
The southwest Reno fire that forced thousands to flee and destroyed 32 homes is fully contained at nearly 2,000 acres, fire officials said late Sunday. Close to 10,000 people were forced to evacuate early Friday by the unusual, out-of-season blaze …
The Reno City Council approved a $58,000 settlement on Wednesday with a woman who persuaded a federal jury that a city police officer coerced her to strip naked in his patrol car when she was a teenager more than five …
Fire investigators in Reno say arcing power lines likely caused the wind-fueled wildfire that destroyed 15 homes and damaged at least 40 more. Reno Fire Chief Mike Hernandez says the 2,000-acre fire is now 65 percent contained. He expects that …
North Las Vegas, Nev., police now say they doubt a fire on the second floor of a vacant home was deliberately set to injure firefighters. Police Sgt. Tim Bedwell said Wednesday that investigators still think arson is the cause behind …
Authorities in Reno say more manhole covers and storm drain grates have been reported stolen, this time from a different neighborhood. More than 40 storm grates have been stolen from the Somersett area since August. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal …