RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection intends to decide in January whether to cut off most bottled water deliveries to neighbors of a toxic mine in Yerington who've been receiving it for the past 15 years.
It's taken 40 years since the official shutdown of the former Anaconda Copper Mine near Yerington, Nev., but there will finally be shovels in the ground later this year.
Another tribe in Northern Nevada wants Nevada’s new governor to reverse a deal made under the previous administration to clean-up the Anaconda Copper Mine near Yerington.
Congressman Mark Amodei has introduced a bill to give more than 2,000 acres of federal land at a polluted mine site near Yerington to the oil company responsible for cleaning it up.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The owner of an abandoned Nevada mine has suspended the normal bottled water deliveries it's been providing neighbors since tests in 2004 confirmed a plume of groundwater contaminated area wells.
Lyon County’s first marijuana dispensary opened Saturday in Yerington.
The Yerington Paiute Tribe’s dispensary sells products for both medical and recreational use. The tribe has plans to develop cultivation and production facilities as well.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — State environmental regulators are banking on a pledge from petroleum giant BP to expedite cleanup of an abandoned Nevada mine without the teeth of the U.S.
RENO — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says an abandoned copper mine in northwestern Nevada is being prioritized for cleanup under the federal Superfund program.
The Yerington Paiute Tribe has asked the city of Yerington and Lyon County to enter into a compact to open a medical marijuana dispensary within city limits.
The potential dispensary site would be in a building behind a Smoke Shop on property that’s owned by the tribe.
After decades of resistance from the state of Nevada, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking the final steps to add an abandoned copper mine in Yerington to the list of the nation's most polluted Superfund sites.
Facing a deadline set by federal regulators, Gov. Brian Sandoval said the state needs more time to decide whether to end its long-held opposition to having an abandoned Nevada mine listed among the nation’s most contaminated sites.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Federal environmental regulators are waiting to hear any last-minute objections from Nevada's governor before formally moving ahead with their proposal to add a contaminated, abandoned mine in rural Yerington to the national list of priority Superfund sites.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio is holding a town hall meeting in Carson City as part of a multi-stop northern Nevada tour.
Authorities are investigating a riot at a juvenile rehabilitation camp in northern Nevada where two buildings were set on fire, four staff members hurt...
