Mar 5th, 2010 · When writer John D'Agata moved his mother to the suburbs of Las Vegas, he began looking at the history of the government’s plan to store nuclear waste deep in Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The resulting boo—-- About a Mountai—-- is a reporter's notebook that reads like poetry.
Feb 19th, 2010 · President Obama unveils a plan to pump $1.5 billion into state and local housing agencies in an effort to help Americans stay in their homes. Homeowners in California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Michigan — where home prices have fallen 20 percent from their peaks — will benefit from the program.
Feb 19th, 2010 · President Obama unveils a plan to pump $1.5 billion into state and local housing agencies in an effort to help Americans stay in their homes. Homeowners in California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Michigan — where home prices have fallen 20 percent from their peaks — will benefit from the program.
Feb 19th, 2010 · President Obama is out West, as part of two-day campaign swing through the region, which is aimed at helping Democratic Senate candidates in tough races. He spoke at a fundraiser for Sen. Michael Bennet in Denver Thursday. He holds a town hall meeting Friday in Nevada, where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in a re-election fight. At least eight Senate seats are considered at risk.
Jan 22nd, 2010 · A brothel in a Nevada desert town has hired the state's first male prostitute, a muscular college dropout who abandoned a brief stint as a porn actor in Los Angeles to become the only legal gigolo in the United States.
Jan 8th, 2010 · The initiative proposed to amend the state constitution by defining a person and extending due process rights from the beginning of biological development through end of life. The judge said the measure was too broad and general in nature to be put before voters in November.
Dec 7th, 2009 · A small Nevada accounting firm and an anti-tax group brought the challenge to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law, arguing that the board created by the law violates the Constitution's separation of powers mandate because the president cannot appoint or remove its members.
Nov 18th, 2009 · Ancient bristlecone pine trees found in certain parts of California and Nevada have been growing at an unprecedented rate in the last 50 years. According to a recent study, this growth has most likely been caused by warmer temperatures. Malcolm Hughes, one of the study's lead researchers and a professor of dendrochronology at the University of Arizona's Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, offers his insight.