All the headlines from our Nevada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 2 2021 // A magnitude 4.7 hit in a remote area of northeast Nevada, where officials said they had no immediate reports of damage or injuries, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed.The USGS said temblor struck about 10:20 a.m. about...
Aug 30 2021 // A jury in Las Vegas, Nev., has awarded $38.8 million in damages to the family of an 11-year-old girl who was fatally hit by a trash truck as she walked home from school in February 2017.The Clark County District Court jury...
Aug 20 2021 // Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is urging firefighters, scientists, teachers and moms to help form new strategies to deal with increasingly unhealthy air quality in Nevada caused by wildfires that continue to worsen and no...
Aug 17 2021 // Alliant Insurance Services named Karen Caterino senior vice president in its public entity practice.Caterino is based in Nevada and will focus on leading public entity, education and pooling business growth and development...
Aug 6 2021 // A federal judge in Nevada has revived elements of a securities fraud lawsuit seeking class-action status for allegations that executives at Wynn Resorts Ltd. knew about, but disregarded, reports of sexual harassment and...
Jul 28 2021 // The governors of California and Nevada called for more federal firefighting assistance Wednesday as they toured a region blackened by one of several massive wildfires that have destroyed dozens of homes in the West.Nevada...
Jul 12 2021 // Aftershocks have hit the region between Northern California and Nevada Friday after a magnitude 6 earthquake sent large boulders rolling into highways and knocked smaller items off shelves.The quake shortly before 4 p.m....
May 17 2021 // InterWest Insurance Services LLC has opened a new office in Reno, Nev., and has acquired Aegis Insurance Markets in Truckee, Calif.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tony Commendatore, founder of AEGIS, will continue in...
May 13 2021 // A Sparks, Nev. police officer who is accusing the city of violating his free speech rights is seeking $1 million in damages after he was suspended for four days for making comments on his private social media account that...
May 10 2021 // A series of earthquakes – the largest with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 – struck the California-Nevada border area Thursday night but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, the U.S. Geological Survey...
May 3 2021 // Nevada lawmakers on April 28 heard three proposals about changing liability laws and helping fire-fighting agencies coordinate their responses.As fire seasons become longer and more dangerous, the Legislature is one of...
Apr 30 2021 // Reno, Nevada, city officials said they have reached a tentative agreement to pay $4.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by residents whose homes in the community of Lemmon Valley were flooded north of town in 2017 after...
Apr 27 2021 // A series of small earthquakes jolted the Lake Tahoe region of California and Nevada on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. A 3.7 magnitude quake struck at 8:33 a.m. centered about 4.5 miles southeast of Dollar...
Apr 12 2021 // Correction: The Associated Press incorrectly referred to the woman’s attorney, Christian Morris, as a man. Morris is a woman. This article has been corrected to reflect that.A jury has awarded $29.5 million to the...
Mar 29 2021 // Casino giant Caesars Entertainment Inc. is putting its losses because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 at more than $2 billion, and is suing a long list of insurance carriers it accuses of balking at paying its business...
Mar 25 2021 // A Washoe County judge in Nevada has ordered Reno to pay $1.1 million to owners of three homes that flooded north of the city four years ago as dozens of others continue to press related battles in federal court over...
Mar 23 2021 // McKinsey & Co. will pay $45 million to settle an investigation by Nevada of the big consulting firm’s role in fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic.Nevada had been the lone holdout among U.S. states investigating...
Mar 22 2021 // A Russian man has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to offering a Tesla employee $1 million to cripple the electric car company’s massive electric battery plant in Nevada with ransomware and steal company secrets for...
Mar 4 2021 // Four baby food makers have been accused in Nevada state court of producing baby food tainted with toxic metals and harming at least seven Las Vegas children who were diagnosed with autism.Attorneys Will Kemp and Robert...
Mar 3 2021 // Nevada officials are preparing to cede decision-making power over the state’s coronavirus measures to county officials. In the five rural counties that have passed resolutions condemning the restrictions, it’s...