A sealed document obtained by The New York Times says a Nevada commissioner has ruled against Rupert Murdoch’s effort to change his family’s trust to give his son Lachlan Murdoch control of his media empire and ensure Fox News maintains its conservative editorial slant.

Conservationists and a Native American advocacy group are suing to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an endangered wildflower to extinction, disrupt groundwater flows and threaten cultural resources.

Here is an interactive map showing Nov. 5, 2024, General Election results by Nevada county.

The manager of a key swing county in northern Nevada is out on medical leave, a departure announced just days before the election.

Rupert Murdoch and his four children are in Nevada where they're scheduled to return to court Tuesday at an evidentiary hearing that could decide who control’s Murdoch’s media empire after his death.

Devastating wildfires are sweeping across Southern California hillsides.

Commissioners in Nevada’s second most populous county certified the results of two local recounts on Tuesday, reversing course on a controversial vote against certification that spurred legal action and put Washoe County in unchartered legal territory.

The weeklong heat wave that baked most of the U.S. Southwest in temperatures well into triple digits is on its last legs, but forecasters are still urging people to be cautious.

The season’s first heat wave is already baking the Southwestern U.S. with triple-digit temperatures as Phoenix firefighters employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives.

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee report raising more than $90 million in March and ending the year’s first quarter with $192 million-plus in cash on hand.

The most powerful Pacific storm of the season has started barreling into the Sierra Nevada.

Heavy snow has shut down parts of major interstates in northern Arizona while low-lying clouds delayed more than 100 flights farther south in Phoenix.

A major winter storm bringing up to a foot of snow and freezing rain to some communities spread across New England, sending residents scurrying to pull out their shovels and snowblowers to clear sidewalks and driveways.

Environmentalists are poised to return to court in an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a Nevada lithium mine.

The University of Nevada’s basketball team could have a new off-campus home by 2026 under an ambitious 10-year expansion plan that Reno’s largest hotel-casino has in the works.

The rain clouds have passed and the temple has burned.

The traffic jam leaving the Burning Man festival has eased up considerably as the exodus from the mud-caked Nevada desert entered a second day following massive rain that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded there for days.

A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a rural Nevada town's unusual bid to halt government repairs to an aging irrigation canal that burst and flooded more than 500 homes in 2008.

A court battle between the mayor of Reno and a private investigator who secretly tracked her with a GPS device ahead of the November election is moving to Nevada's Supreme Court.

A Nevada judge has ordered a private investigator to identify the person who hired him to track Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve and an ex-county commissioner with GPS devices attached to their cars ahead of the November election.

A federal report says parts of the right wing of a medical transport plane that crashed Feb. 24 in Nevada fell far from the site of the wreckage.

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the highly-contested construction in Nevada of what will be the largest lithium mine planned in the U.S. The court is allowing construction while it considers whether the government illegally approved the mine in a rush to produce raw materials for electric vehicle batteries.

Wildlife biologists and forest rangers at Lake Tahoe and across the West have been preaching the mantra for decades: Don't feed the bears.

A federal judge in Nevada has ordered the government to revisit part of its environmental review of a proposed lithium mine.

General Motors has conditionally agreed to invest $650 million in Lithium Americas in a deal that will give GM exclusive access to the first phase of a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the largest known source of lithium in the U.S. The equity investment the companies announced jointly Tuesday is contingent on the project clearing the final environmental and legal challenges it faces in federal court in Reno, where conservationists and tribes are suing to block it.

Opponents of the largest lithium mine planned in the U.S. urged a federal judge in Nevada to vacate the U.S. government’s approval of the project until it completes additional environmental reviews and complies with all state and federal laws.

“The Avengers” star Jeremy Renner remains in critical condition while being treated for serious injuries that happened while he was plowing snow.

A powerful storm is bringing drenching rain or heavy snowfall to much of California as the state gets ready to usher in a new year.

Landslides of rock and mud closed roadways across California as heavy rains kicked off what will be series of storms poised to usher in the new year, likely bringing downpours and flooding.

Reno's mayor is suing a private investigator and his company after finding a tracking device attached to her vehicle that was capable of tracking its real-time location.

A winter storm that sent ski lift chairs swinging and closed mountain highways in the Sierra Nevada will push across the country and reach the Plains by mid-week, bringing significant rain and below-average temperatures.

Pulled from a sunken trunk at an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina, work pants that auction officials describe as the oldest known pair of jeans in the world have sold for $114,000.

Certification of this year’s midterm election results appears to be proceeding smoothly and with little controversy across the country.

Incumbent Democrats in Nevada have swept three key swing seats in the western battleground state that Republicans had targeted in their bid to take control of the U.S. House.

Police in northern Nevada say thousands of people in hundreds of cars took over parking lots and intersections Friday night, performing stunts and leading to crashes and arrests.

A former deputy Nevada attorney general has been arrested in Reno as a suspect in a 1972 homicide in Hawaii.

Conservationists are seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a tiny Nevada snail half the size of a pea that is known to exist only in high-desert springs around a huge lithium mine planned near the Oregon state line.

California kept the lights on during extreme heat, as operators of the state’s electricity grid continued to warn that unprecedented demand on energy supplies could force them to periodically cut power to some customers.

A brutal Western heat wave brought California to the verge of ordering rolling blackouts but the state’s electrical grid has managed to handle record-breaking demand.

In a rare emergency move, the U.S. government has temporarily declared a Nevada toad endangered, saying a geothermal power plant in the works could result in its extinction.

The Hawaii Bowl was canceled Thursday after Hawaii withdrew from its game against Memphis on the eve of the contest because of COVID-19, season-ending injuries and transfers.

Doctors and nurses are staffing mobile clinics throughout the U.S. to ensure people in tiny towns and far-flung rural areas can get vaccinated.

Water flows through an irrigation canal in Fernley, Nev. about 30 miles east of Reno Thursday, March 18, 2021. Safety aside, the bureau says the loss of federally owned water from the dirt canal is a waste of U.S. taxpayers’ money. Ad“Fernley has a right to continued recharge from the Truckee Canal under the public use doctrine because the seepage conditions have continued for 115 years,” the lawsuit stated. AdBuilt in 1905, the Truckee Canal was part of the Newlands Project named after the Nevada congressman whose legislation led to creation of the Bureau of Reclamation three years earlier. “The city’s use of canal seepage is not a valid project water delivery.”

In a case that cybersecurity experts called exceptional for the risks he took, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Reno. Typically, ransomware gangs operating from safe havens hack into victim networks over the internet and download data before activating the ransomware. The FBI said the unnamed prospective recruit informed Tesla and cooperated with the FBI, and the plot was stopped before any damage happened. Kriuchkov, 27, told a judge in September that he knew the Russian government was aware of his case. Tesla has a massive factory near Reno that makes batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage units.

CLAIM: A photo showing a doctor standing in front of empty hospital beds at a Reno, Nevada, auxiliary care site for COVID-19 patients proves that the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax. Keeperman took the photo the day the care site had opened and before the first patient had arrived. The Nevada Hospital Association reported that a record-high 1,589 patients were hospitalized with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. Because of competing demands, including the flu, 78% of the state’s nearly 6,900 staffed hospital beds are occupied. In northern Nevada, hospitals have experienced more than a 250% increase in confirmed hospitalized cases in the past month, the association reported.

LAS VEGAS President Donald Trump's plans to hold weekend rallies in Las Vegas and Reno are in jeopardy after local officials warned they would violate Nevada's ban on gatherings of more than 50 people because of the coronavirus. The Reno airport authority did not respond to messages from The Associated Press seeking to confirm the letter. Officials with Clark County, which includes the Las Vegas airport, did not send any warnings to the Trump campaign or events hosts, according to county spokesman Erik Pappa. National and Nevada representatives for the Trump campaign did not respond to messages Wednesday about the reports that the events might be canceled. The Governors Office had no involvement or communication with the event organizers or potential hosts regarding the proposed campaign events advertised by the Trump campaign, Sisolak's spokeswoman, Meghin Delaney, said in an email.

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2020, file photo, a series of greenhouses are pictured at the University of Nevada, Reno, where a rare desert wildflower is growing. The Las Vegas bearpoppy is facing threats from dramatic habitat loss in southern Nevada due to urban sprawl and mining, as well as killer bees, they said. Ioneer looks forward to the USFWS full status review of Tiehms buckwheat and stands ready to assist the Service in any way possible, the company said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press. The company acknowledges Tiehms buckwheat hasnt been documented anywhere else on earth, but denies the mine would lead to its extinction. Conservationists said in the listing petition in October that the surviving population of Theims was estimated between 20,000 and 43,000 individual plants.

DETROIT A preliminary 6.5 magnitude earthquake was detected early Friday morning just outside Reno, Nevada, USGS reports. The quake occurred in a remote area of the state between Reno and Las Vegas, and people from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Californias Central Valley tweeted that they felt it. The initial quake struck about 4.7 miles (7.6 kilometers) deep, the USGS said, and at least six sizable aftershocks were recorded shortly thereafter, including two with estimated magnitudes of 5.4. We have a lot of locals coming in saying their TVs were shaking, they felt it, said Hasty. #earthquake Initial magnitude: 6.4. pic.twitter.com/GXmiQUzSZu EricSorensen (@ERICSORENSEN) May 15, 2020

The decision cannot be undone, the material is already in the state and the federal government has sovereign immunity, meaning the state cant force the federal government to act, the motion contends. The Department of Energy routinely and safely transports nuclear materials into and out of Nevada and stores classified amounts of plutonium in Nevada, it added. The Energy Department disclosed last January that the plutonium had been taken in late 2018 to a specialized facility at the vast Nevada National Security Site, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. The Energy Department says it plans to eventually move the plutonium to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. Outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry in April promised to send no more plutonium to Nevada and to remove the amount already delivered by 2027.

Aaron Logan/Wikimedia(CNN) - The National Weather Service in Reno, Nevada, has issued a red flag warning for most of Western Nevada and the Eastern Sierra, which includes the grounds of the annual Burning Man event. Burning Man, a nine-day festival, welcomes people from all over the world to experience eclectic costumes, art installations and musical performances. It's unclear if that will change due to the red flag warning. The Burning Man Project's Twitter and Facebook accounts made no mention of the upcoming weather advisory Wednesday. The warning goes into effect Wednesday at 11 a.m. and runs through 8 p.m.CNN has reached out to Burning Man organizers but has not heard back.

A 34-year-old Missouri woman tracked down the thief she says stole her car and then took it back. Reno tracked down the woman by re-activating her credit card and looking to see where the suspect made purchases. Eventually, Reno found her car and used her spare key to steal it back. I was super, super happy." But Reno said the car has been left in horrific condition, trashed to the point where she doesn't even want to drive it.

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CNN Video(CNN) - Emergency responders were investigating an incident Friday on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, according to the school's website. "Please advise to stay away between 9th street and College Dr. Information will be posted as it's available," the school said. The campus police said on Facebook that there was a "major utility incident." Video recorded by CNN affiliate KRNV showed one residence hall with significant damage to one wall. The residence hall can house up to 750 people.