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Environmentalists oppose off-roaders’ lawsuit over bird plan

RENO, Nev. – Conservationists want to join a legal battle in opposition to off-road vehicle users who are trying to overturn U.S. protections for a type of imperiled bird found only along th...

DATE: Mar 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Agency built pen for possible horse slaughter

RENO, Nev. – The U.S. Forest Service has built its first corral for wild horses, which could allow it to bypass federal restrictions and sell the animals for slaughter. The agency...

DATE: Jan 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Reno’s motor lodges aren’t home to vacationers anymore

RENO, Nev. – They were the toast of Reno in the 1950s, when the growing casino industry sparked a boom that for a time turned northern Nevada into the West’s top gambling destination. ...

DATE: Oct 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

1st year of Nevada marijuana sales smokes expectations

RENO, Nev. – Nevada regulators and industry insiders say the state’s first year of broad marijuana legalization has exceeded even their highest expectations, with sales and tax collections a...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business

Crews gaining on huge Nevada wildfire visible from space

RENO, Nev. – More than 600 firefighters slowed the progress Tuesday of a massive wildfire in a remote part of northern Nevada that is generating so much heat and smoke that it’s now visible ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Jeep in hot water over ad showing SUV romping through river

RENO, Nev. – The head of one of the nation’s largest fish conservation groups says Fiat Chrysler Super Bowl ads “glorified” the destruction of aquatic habitat in an apparent attempt to appea...

DATE: Feb 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Suit tries to block roundup of nearly 10,000 Nevada mustangs

RENO, Nev. – Animal rights activists are suing to block what they say is an unprecedented federal plan to capture thousands of wild horses over 10 years in Nevada. Friends of Anim...

DATE: Jan 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Shoes, bags, even dentures lost at Burning Man await owners

RENO, Nev. – Lindsay Weiss once lost her cellphone and got it back, so she and a friend knew what they had to do when they discovered a camera during the Burning Man festival in the Nevada d...

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nevada adopts emergency rules to combat pot bottleneck

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Nevada moved Thursday to reduce supply problems at recreational marijuana stores that have faced overwhelming demand for newly legal pot and the possibility of their shel...

DATE: Jul 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Uncertainty as Nevada aims to launch recreational pot soon

RENO, Nev. – Nevada voters legalized recreational marijuana in November, and officials are trying to put rules in place to start selling it on July 1. It would be the shortest tur...

DATE: Jun 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Wild horses could be sold for slaughter in Trump budget plan

PALOMINO VALLEY, Nev. – President Donald Trump’s budget proposal calls for saving $10 million next year by selling wild horses captured throughout the U.S. West without the requirement that ...

DATE: May 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nevada joins handful of states with spans of 80 mph driving

FORTY MILE DESERT, Nev. – Of all the things you can do legally in Nevada but not most other places, driving 80 mph lately hasn’t been one of them. That changed recently when new s...

DATE: May 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel