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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

Court denies mustang appeal sought by Nevada counties

RENO, Nev. – Wild horse advocates in Nevada scored a victory Monday in an ongoing legal battle with rural interests they say want to round up federally protected mustangs across the West and...

DATE: Apr 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Nevada governor may sue if BLM won’t pony up for mustang roundups

Nevada governor considers lawsuit

DATE: Apr 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

For first time, drone delivers package to residential area

RENO, Nev. – A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a small Nevada town in what its maker and the governor of the state said was the first fully autonomous...

DATE: Mar 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

BLM to cap pipes used to stake mining claims

Tubes kill 100,000 animals annually

DATE: Feb 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EPA wants toxic Nevada mine on Superfund list

RENO, Nev. – Fifteen years after U.S. regulators started assessing damage and health risks at an abandoned Nevada copper mine, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving to designate the ...

DATE: Dec 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nevada neighborhood first to feel sting of sage-grouse rules

SUN VALLEY, Nev. – One of the first, actual on-the-ground disruptions caused by new U.S. efforts to protect the greater sage-grouse isn’t on a cattle ranch in Oregon or an oil field in Color...

DATE: Nov 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Reno’s divorce history chronicled in new online exhibit

RENO, Nev. – From the tales of the rich and famous, to stories from ordinary people who flocked to Reno for quickie-divorces before World War II, University of Nevada researchers have launch...

DATE: Sep 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Euthanization of 28 mustangs draws criticism

Advocates say horses could have recovered

DATE: Sep 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The art of Tahoe

Exhibit collects work inspired by iconic Western lake

DATE: Aug 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

Conservationists win ruling in Nevada wildlife lawsuit

RENO, Nev. – A U.S. appeals court has breathed new life into a conservation group’s legal battle in Nevada aimed at shutting down a Depression-era government program that spends more than $1...

DATE: Aug 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News