All the headlines from our Nevada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 31 2012 // Scientists studying earthquake faults in the mountains west of Lake Tahoe say new, high-resolution imaging technology has helped uncover more substantial seismic hazards than previously thought to exist there.The steep,...
May 30 2012 // An attorney has filed another lawsuit challenging southern Nevada’s authorities’ enforcement of a state law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets.The Las Vegas Sun reported Travis Barrick is taking a...
May 17 2012 // Brown & Brown Insurance of Nevada Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired certain assets of Insurcorp and Maalouf Benefit Resources, which recently combined under the name Insurcorp. Following the...
May 8 2012 // The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has approved an application for a license by Google Inc. to test autonomous vehicles on Nevada public roads, DMV announced this week.It is the first license issued in the United...
Apr 16 2012 // The number of Nevada traffic deaths jumped by nearly 25 percent in the first quarter of 2012 when compared with the same period last year, according to figures from state public safety officials.From January through March,...
Apr 5 2012 // The Nevada Board of Examiners approved a $13.6 million settlement with the contractor of the first phase of the Carson City bypass, ending a legal dispute that officials said could have cost more than three times the...
Apr 5 2012 // Elected officials concerned about safety and the image of the Las Vegas Strip are funneling $581,000 in hotel room tax money into a three-month study of pedestrian areas on the tourist corridor.The Clark County Commission...
Apr 4 2012 // The number of Nevada traffic deaths jumped by nearly 25 percent in the first quarter of 2012 when compared with the same period last year, according to figures from state public safety officials.From January through March,...
Mar 5 2012 // Nevada is becoming the first of the U.S. states to regulate self-driving vehicles on its roadways.The state’s legislative commission has approved regulations that were vetted by car manufacturers, insurance...
Mar 1 2012 // Many Nevada employers will see a small increase in the premiums they pay for workers’ compensation insurance in 2012.Nevada Insurance Commissioner Scott J. Kipper has approved a filing from the National Council on...
Feb 23 2012 // Court-ordered talks have yielded settlements in 41 lawsuits involving drug companies blamed for supplying an anesthetic to Las Vegas medical clinics where health officials say patients contracted incurable hepatitis C...
Feb 17 2012 // Nevada is becoming the first of the U.S. states to regulate self-driving vehicles on its roadways.The state’s legislative commission on Wednesday approved regulations that were vetted by car manufacturers, insurance...
Jan 31 2012 // Former business partners of Nevada developer and lobbyist Harvey Whittemore have sued him, claiming he embezzled and misappropriated more than $40 million.In its lawsuit filed Friday in Clark County District Court, the...
Jan 31 2012 // Fire investigators have confirmed arcing power lines caused the wind-blown blaze that destroyed dozens of homes in Reno in November.The brush fire caused about $7.6 million in property damage and more than $1.5 million in...
Jan 30 2012 // A consumer group on Monday issued a study that alleges “disparate treatment” of low-to moderate-income families by auto insurers nationwide. The group is asking state insurance commissioners to consider...
Jan 30 2012 // Former business partners of Nevada developer and lobbyist Harvey Whittemore have sued him, claiming he misappropriated millions of dollars.In its lawsuit filed last week in Clark County District Court, the Wingfield Nevada...
Jan 27 2012 // The deadline is nearing for Nevada residents and businesses affected by November’s brush fire in Reno to apply for Small Business Administration disaster loans.The Caughlin Fire burned more than 3 square miles and...
Jan 23 2012 // The remnants of a Pacific storm that moved into the West are continuing to create weather hazards and bring back winter-like conditions following a long period of warm weather throughout the region today into tonight,...
Jan 17 2012 // A group of Reno, Nev. emergency physicians has sued a woman who oversaw its billing and accounting, claiming she has embezzled more than $700,000 since 1999.The Reno Gazette-Journal reported the Reno Emergency Physicians...
Jan 17 2012 // About 600 victims of a flood caused by the failure of a century-old irrigation canal in Fernley, Nev. in 2008 have received their share of a $10 million settlement.The settlement funds distributed last month stemmed from...