Robert Telles was sentenced on Wednesday to 28 years to life in prison for the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German.

A Nevada Republican politician who ran unsuccessfully two years ago for state treasurer was found guilty Thursday of using funds raised for a statue honoring a slain police officer for personal costs, including plastic surgery.

A prison about 45 miles outside of Las Vegas will house the state’s top offenders after inmate custody levels were transferred between two institutions.

It’s been eight months since a shooter entered Beam Hall on UNLV campus, shooting and killing three professors. He was shot and killed by police.

An elected official in Las Vegas blamed his 2022 primary defeat on negative stories in the local newspaper. Now a jury has found him guilty of murdering the journalist who wrote them.

In Clark County, the sheriff oversees a workforce of some 5,000, who are there to keep the peace in a jurisdiction that includes the state’s largest airport, the state’s biggest economic engine and about half of the county’s 2.3 million residents.

In his first words to a jury, a former Las Vegas-area Democratic elected official declared Wednesday that he didn’t kill an investigative reporter who wrote articles critical of him and his workplace conduct. Then he promised to tell them his story.

SafeNest recently received $5 million in state funding for its One Safe Place initiative to build a shelter for victims of domestic violence and trafficking.

A Nevada man charged with a hate crime acknowledged he referenced a “hanging tree” during a verbal altercation with a Black man who was gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure southeast of Reno, according to a criminal complaint made public Thursday.

This week in Las Vegas, two major conferences on hacking and how to prevent them are being held on the Strip: Black Hat and DefCon.