A 48-year-old convicted murderer who was sentenced in 2003 to be executed for killing his girlfriend and her teenage son died last week at a hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada prison officials said Monday. The cause of Timmy John ``T.J.'' Weber's death was not immediately disclosed pending results of an autopsy, the Nevada Department of Corrections said.
A Nevada man who has served less than a third of his maximum 28-year prison sentence for killing and torturing dogs has been denied early release.
An Elko County jury has found a 20-year-old man guilty of first-degree murder and sexual assault with a deadly weapon in the death of a Spring Creek teenager two years ago.
They’re back. Mormon crickets are back for another summer, creating nuisances for some Nevadans. I have already received numerous calls about how to control these pests. Hopefully, the following information will help readers with their questions about Mormon Cricket control?
State and national advocacy groups say 83 children remain missing in Nevada, 25 more than last year at this time. Officials with the Las Vegas-based nonprofit Nevada Child Seekers said a majority of the children reported missing to law enforcement in Nevada each year are from Las Vegas and many are considered endangered or abducted.
The GBC Native American Student Association (NASA) was pleased to present graduation stoles to four of our recent graduates. Shown are the current club president April Blackhat making the presentations to our happy grads. These students persevered and achieved their academic goals of a college degree, some though multiple hardships and through the pandemic. They should be commended as should the rest of our Native American students at GBC!.
Lowry High School invites the community to attend their annual Art & CTE Showcase on Thursday, June 2. It will be held at the high school from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and feature creative works from students in Art and in Career and Technical Education (CTE) classes.
A veterans council organization has rated its most important issues for the Nevada State Legislature to consider for the next legislative session in Carson City that begins in early 2023.
During the May 2022 Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners meeting, the nine-member, Governor-appointed board approved the 2022 big game harvest quotas. Each year, after substantial scientific input and deliberation from wildlife biologists the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) proposes quotas to wildlife advisory boards, the public, and the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners. This year’s quotas are reflective of a downtrend in wildlife populations statewide primarily due to long-term drought and habitat conversion or loss resulting from wildfires, urbanization, resource competition from wild horses, and more.
In addition to the many ongoing local 4-H club and youth activities that are happening across the state, the Nevada 4-H Youth Development Program also is offering residential camps for youth this summer, following a Nevada tradition that goes back 80 years. The overnight camps will all be held at the Nevada State 4-H Camp in Stateline, Nevada. The 32-acre camp sits on the south shore of Lake Tahoe and is owned and operated by the University of Nevada, Reno.
A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration acted illegally in 2020 when it withdrew an earlier proposal to list as threatened a hen-sized bird found only in the high desert along the California-Nevada line. It's the latest development in the on-again, off-again protection of the bi-state sage grouse — a cousin of the greater sage grouse — under the Endangered Species Act over the past two decades.
“There’s no telling what we’ll find in Lake Mead,” former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman told the Associated Press earlier this month. Goodman, the storied mob attorney turned mayor, was talking about the bodies discovered at Lake Mead as water levels have declined. But Lake Mead’s historic decline has revealed more uncomfortable realities than just this one. If the lake was already a symbol for the West’s water issues, now it is even more stark.
Gov. Steve Sisolak’s office on Wednesday criticized the actions of a politically connected COVID testing contractor that expanded in Nevada without proper licensing and yielded widely inaccurate test results, calling the company’s actions “despicable” and “fraudulent” and saying they are cooperating with a federal investigation.
While Governor Steve Sisolak announced the end of Nevada’s emergency related to COVID-19 on May 20, the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) declaration is still active. That means Nevada Medicaid members will continue to receive Medicaid health insurance under the federal continuous coverage requirement. At this time, the date for the federal end of the PHE has not been announced. Nevadans who currently rely on Medicaid are encouraged to review the following to ensure they receive updates related to Medicaid coverage.
Gov. Steve Sisolak announced the end of the state of emergency, meeting a deadline he set earlier this month and joining at least six other states where similar orders are also expiring.