CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — For the first time in its history, the Nevada Highway Patrol has appointed a woman to lead the agency as colonel.

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.

Authorities in southern Nevada say two men are dead following Thursday night shootings related to road rage.

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) — The Nevada Highway Patrol says one person is dead following a wrong-way freeway crash in metro Las Vegas early Thursday.

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Highway Patrol Association has filed for recognition as the collective bargaining union for state police officers.

ROUNDHILL, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that shut down the main highway on the southeast shore of Lake Tahoe.

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.

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.

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.