Nevada

Authorities say a man fatally shot five people and wounded a 13-year-old girl before shooting himself as he was confronted by police near Las Vegas.

“How did it get up there?” The Las Vegas Police Department is investigating a mysterious monolith that appeared on a hiking trail.

Abortion access advocates in Nevada say they have submitted almost twice the number of petition signatures needed to qualify a measure for the November ballot that would enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution. Officials still have to verify signatures.

The boy’s school contacted police requesting help with a “truancy issue,” which prompted officers to perform a wellness check at his home.

A Nevada jury has awarded about $130 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by five people who suffered liver damage before bottled water marketed by a Las Vegas-based company was recalled in 2021.

A person is in custody after climbing to the top of the Sphere in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said.

In a violent scene captured by courtroom video, the judge fell back from her seat against a wall and suffered some injuries but was not hospitalized, courthouse officials said.

A Las Vegas judge was attacked during a sentencing hearing on Wednesday.

A suspect and two other people are dead following a series of shootings, carjackings and pursuits involving both local and state police in Las Vegas.

A preliminary investigation suggests there was confusion among pilots just before a fatal mid-air collision at the National Championship Air Races last month but sheds little light on why.

Scientists charged with making sure the United States’ aging stockpile of nuclear weapons are good to go, if needed, say they’ll start shipping key components to the Nevada desert next year.

Tens of thousands of hospitality workers in Las Vegas have voted to authorize a strike that could disrupt dozens of hotels and casinos.

Aviation experts say it was likely a visibility issue that caused two racing pilots to collide in mid-air while preparing to land in Reno last weekend. The first- and second-place winners of the National Air Race Championships could have crashed due to an aircraft blind spot, glare from the sun or even a moment of lost focus.

A Las Vegas newspaper is being viciously attacked online for its coverage of an alleged murder of a retired police chief, either because of a misunderstanding or a deliberate attempt to mislead.

Officials say two veteran California pilots were killed when their World War II-era planes collided in midair after completing a race and preparing to land over the weekend at the National Championship Air Races north of Reno.

Authorities say two pilots have died after their planes crashed upon landing at an air racing event in Reno.

Burning Man concertgoers exiting Black Rock City, Nevada, created a traffic jam Tuesday. Flooding and mud had left more than 70,000 people stranded over Labor Day weekend.

Muddy roads that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded for days at a counterculture festival had dried up enough by Monday afternoon to allow them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert.

Partygoers stranded at a counterculture festival by a late summer storm hoped muddy roads would reopen Monday and allow them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert.

Burning Man’s estimated 70,000-plus attendees were isolated at the venue known as Black Rock City as rain returned Sunday and closed roads, muddy campgrounds, and one reported death darkened the day.