Nevada Highway Patrol job vacancies resulting from troopers leaving for better-paying law enforcement jobs elsewhere has a union official calling for immediate legislative action.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Highway Patrol says a state trooper has been placed on administrative leave after he violently arrested a woman who attempted to flee in Sparks.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada state trooper is on administrative leave after video of him punching a suspect during an arrest caught attention on social media.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak has ordered that flags at state buildings and grounds be flown at half-staff Wednesday in honor of a Highway Patrol sergeant killed in the line of duty.
ELY, Nev. (AP) — Authorities say a highway patrol trooper was shot, his patrol vehicle was stolen and a suspect was arrested with possible explosives several hours later in a remote area of northeastern Nevada.
The Nevada Highway Patrol has arrested a driver in Carson City who ran into several vehicles in Reno then led state troopers on a car chase through Washoe Valley.
The patrol says the driver was involved in six to eight hit-and-run crashes in Reno on Wednesday before troope
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Highway Patrol says a wrong-way driver was killed Thursday in a four-vehicle freeway crash in metro Las Vegas early Thursday.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman says a trooper injured when he was struck by a hit-and-run vehicle early Thursday morning in metro Las Vegas has been released from a hospital.
ELKO, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Highway Patrol says approximately 4,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled onto a highway when a Union Pacific freight train struck the end of a tanker truck that didn't clear the tracks in time to avoid a collision.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Highway Patrol is cracking down on drivers who fail to move over to the far lane when passing roadside emergency response vehicles.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Highway Patrol says a trooper escaped serious injury Saturday when a vehicle slammed into the back of the trooper's stopped patrol car which was then pushed into a vehicle pulled over during a traffic stop.
ELKO (AP) — Nevada authorities don't want a recent increase in speed limit from 75 mph to 80 mph on additional sections of Interstate 80 to translate to less safety by motorists.
PRIMM, Nev. (AP) — Authorities say at least two people were injured, one seriously, in a crash involving two tractor-trailer rigs and seven passenger vehicles on southbound Interstate 15 about 44 miles southwest of Las Vegas.
