Twelve children are safe after a four-day operation in Las Vegas aimed at locating juveniles believed to be victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. The effort, known as the “Big Search Missing & Exploited Children Task Force Operation,” was conducted Feb. 2 through Feb. 6. The operation primarily focused on locating juveniles identified…

The Nevada Commission on Ethics has advanced a formal complaint against Attorney General Aaron Ford, moving the matter to the full commission for further review following a preliminary finding of sufficient evidence to proceed. The complaint, initiated by the commission and authored or contributed to by its Executive Director Ross Armstrong, alleges that Ford improperly…

There’s a kind of wisdom you can only get from sitting at the kitchen table with a pile of receipts, a calculator, and a cup of lukewarm coffee that’s long past its best hour. It’s the kind of wisdom that whispers, “You don’t really own anything, you’re just renting it from the government one tax…

The U.S. Department of Justice has released more than 3 million pages of documents, along with over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, tied to investigations of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, marking what officials say is full compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed into law in November 2025. The materials became public in…

Two complaints have been filed with the Nevada Commission on Ethics alleging that Rudy Pamintuan, Chief of Staff to Nevada Lieutenant Governor Stavros Anthony, misused his state government position to promote a private business interest. According to information filed with the commission, Pamintuan allegedly used his official role to arrange or facilitate a visit or…

A water heater is the possible cause of a house fire in the Star City area of Winnemucca on Sunday afternoon. According to the Winnemucca Rural Fire District (WRFD), fire crews responded to the scene just before 3 p.m. on February 15 after receiving reports of a structure fire. When crews arrived, they found flames…

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested following a shots-fired incident Friday night in the parking lot of the Save Mart near the Crossroads Shopping Center, according to the Truckee Police Department. Officers responded around 9 p.m. to reports of gunfire in the area of Highway 89. By the time police arrived, the people involved had…

A runaway juvenile who took her parents’ vehicle Sunday morning was safely located in Carlin just hours later, following a coordinated response by multiple law enforcement agencies across northern Nevada. According to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched to Our Place at approximately 10 a.m. on February 15 after receiving a report that…

The Reno Police Department has announced the arrests of three men in connection with a series of recent shootings, as well as several stolen vehicles and an attempted armed robbery. On Feb. 10, through coordinated intelligence sharing and evidence analysis, including the use of the Ballistics IQ system, detectives say they were able to link…

Two people were killed Sunday night in a wrong-way, head-on crash on U.S. Highway 395 near the California-Nevada state line, according to California Highway Patrol dispatch logs. The incident was first reported shortly after 7:30 p.m., when callers told authorities a vehicle was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes near the Bordertown area, just north…