Federal land managers have begun a series of horse and burro roundups across Nevada, including a major operation in the Spring Mountains just northwest of Las Vegas. The Bureau of Land Management says 425 horses and 425 burros will be gathered from the Spring Mountains Complex, an area spanning more than 600,000 acres across the…

The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) has a new statewide highway safety plan for reducing fatalities and serious injuries on Nevada roadways. The plan serves as a framework to identify the leading causes of deadly and severe crashes by targeting those risks through data-driven strategies. State officials say Nevada aims to reduce fatal and serious…

A minor earthquake shook the area near Silver Peak early Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The preliminary 2.2-magnitude tremor struck at 2:23 a.m., with its epicenter located about 21 miles north of Silver Peak at a shallow depth of just 0.02 miles. Seismologists note that this quake is part of a string…

A Clark County District Court judge has sided with the Las Vegas Metro Police after the department refused to release a defendant on an ankle monitor. In a March 13 order, Judge Erika Mendoza backed Metro in its refusal to place Matthew Cordero-Davila on the department’s medium-electronic monitoring program. Cordero-Davila, who pleaded guilty in January…

A fifth-grade teacher at Wing and Lilly Fong Elementary School has been arrested and booked on multiple child abuse-related charges, according to the Clark County School District (CCSD) and local authorities. The CCSD Police Department identified the employee as 51-year-old Kha Nam Nguyen. District officials confirmed Nguyen has been assigned to home since the beginning…

A 45-year-old Carson City man was arrested early Monday following a Sunday evening robbery at a local convenience store, according to the Carson City Sheriff’s Office. Jason Bahnsen faces multiple charges, including armed robbery, kidnapping, false imprisonment, burglary, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, among others. Deputies said he also faces charges…

Two law enforcement officers were injured in separate crashes Saturday night in the Reno-Sparks area, according to authorities. The first crash involved a Washoe County Sheriff’s Office deputy in Sun Valley. Officials say the collision happened on Sun Valley Boulevard between First Avenue and Second Avenue when a marked patrol vehicle, driven by an on-duty…

Some folks reckon that heroes come from the right stuff, hard work, courage, and a bit of cleverness. Others find out the hard way that even the brightest stars can cast long, dark shadows. The United Farm Workers, a union that had spent decades carrying one man’s name like a banner, found themselves staring down…

My brother Adam was seven when he started talking about his imaginary friend, the Green Man. He said the man was a magician and had a magic finger that could make things disappear. When he told me this, I laughed it off. Imaginary friends weren’t unusual, except for the way Adam said his name. Not…

A legal standoff in Las Vegas has emerged over the release of Joshua Sanchez-Lopez, a convicted felon with 35 prior arrests, after a judge ordered him placed on electronic monitoring. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman set bail at $25,000 following Sanchez-Lopez’s latest arrest on charges including grand larceny of a motor vehicle.…