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Report: Helicopter Had Fuel Issue On Day Of Crash

Nov 16, 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — U.S. crash investigators say a rented helicopter that crashed near Las Vegas, killing two men, was found to have sediment in its fuel tanks just hours before the flight.

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Steve Wynn Says Nevada Regulators Can’t Pull His Gambling License

Nov 16, 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn is telling Nevada regulators they can’t revoke his gambling license over allegations of workplace sexual harassment because he’s no longer affiliated with the company that carries his name.

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Decade-Old Legal Battle Over Nevada Water Pipeline Resumes

Nov 16, 2019

ELY, Nev. (AP) — A decade-long legal battle over a plan to pump groundwater from eastern Nevada to Las Vegas resumed this week with lawyers on both sides arguing over differing parts of a former state engineer’s decision to block the plan.

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Douglas County Commission Denies Appeal For Slaughterhouse

Nov 16, 2019

MINDEN, Nev. (AP) — The Douglas County Commission has denied an appeal by a group of ranchers who want to open a slaughterhouse on the edge of Gardnerville.

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Early Enrollment In Nevada Insurance Marketplace Tops 60,000

Nov 16, 2019

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s new health insurance marketplace has enrolled more than 60,000 people in a health plan during the first third of the 45-day enrollment period.

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Electric Vehicle Charging Station opens Off I-15 In Nevada

Nov 16, 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Electric vehicle owners have a new place to charge batteries on the heavily-traveled freeway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

State and local officials on Thursday marked the start of use of two rapid chargers at a Terrible’s Road House service station in Jean.

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Unvaccinated Students Unenroll From School Due To Outbreak

Nov 16, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nineteen unvaccinated students were forced to temporarily unenroll from a Reno high school to avoid exposure during an outbreak of whooping cough.

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Decade-Old Legal Battle Over Nevada Water Pipeline Resumes

Nov 15, 2019

ELY, Nev. (AP) — A decade-long legal battle over a plan to pump groundwater from eastern Nevada to Las Vegas resumed this week with lawyers on both sides arguing over differing parts of a former state engineer’s decision to block the plan.

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Boring Company To Start Tunnel At New Convention Center On Friday

Nov 15, 2019

Elon Musk’s Boring Company will begin drilling an underground tunnel for the Las Vegas Convention Center’s planned people mover on Friday.

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Reno Moves Ahead With Allowing E-Bikes, Scooter-Share Services To Return

Nov 15, 2019

The Reno City Council unanimously approved the introduction of two ordinances that would allow electric scooter-share businesses to return.

The measures align the city with a new state law that allows local leaders to regulate and impose fees on those businesses.

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Concerns Over Space Force Art Museum To Look For New Location

Nov 15, 2019

The Nevada Museum of Art, Las Vegas hasn’t been built and already it’s running out of space.

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Frontier Airlines Expands Nonstop Service From McCarran

Nov 15, 2019

Frontier Airlines will be expanding its nonstop service from Las Vegas.

On Thursday, the airline announced nonstop flights from McCarran International Airport to four locations: Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Seattle-Tacoma and John Wayne Airport, Orange County.

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Report: 50,000 People From California Moved To Nevada From 2017 to 2018

Nov 15, 2019

More than 50,000 people moved from California to Nevada between July 2017 and July 2018, the second-highest amount in the past 10 years, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

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Fresh Into 2020 Race, Patrick To Speak In Las Vegas On Sunday

Nov 15, 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will make one of his first appearances as a presidential candidate in Las Vegas on Sunday night.

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Bernie Sanders Working To Win Moderates, Latinos In Nevada

Nov 15, 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Bernie Sanders is courting voters in Nevada who might not be very politically engaged, as well as moderate Democrats and Latinos, the Vermont senator’s campaign said Thursday.

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Trump’s Pick For Energy Boss Answers Nevada’s Nuke Concerns

Nov 15, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to become the next U.S. energy secretary pledged Thursday to uphold his predecessor’s promise to begin removing weapons-grade plutonium the government secretly shipped last year to a security site in southern Nevada.

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Nevada College Names Student Union After Late Lawmaker

Nov 15, 2019

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — The College of Southern Nevada has named the student union at its North Las Vegas campus after former state Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson.

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Latin Grammys To Celebrate 20 Years With Massive Performance

Nov 14, 2019
The Latin Grammys will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a 20-artist performance in a tribute to the legacy of Latin music.
 
Thursday night’s show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas will open with a performance featuring Prince Royce, Anitta, Fito Páez, Natalia Ji
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Highway Patrol: Fatal Wrong-Crash On I-15 In Las Vegas Area

Nov 14, 2019

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.

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North Las Vegas Planning Commission Approves Plan For Liquid Hydrogen Plant At Apex

Nov 14, 2019

North Las Vegas is going forward with moving a liquid hydrogen plant into Apex Industrial Park.

The city’s planning commission unanimously approved industrial gas supplier Air Liquide to store 475,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen there.

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2 Teens Burned During Pot Extraction, Not Stead Oven Fire

Nov 14, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Reno fire officials say a kitchen fire at a house in Stead that originally was blamed on an exploding oven was started by two teenagers who were burning butane in a marijuana extraction process and suffered severe burns.

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Solow Promoted To Colonel To Lead Nevada Highway Patrol

Nov 14, 2019

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Highway Patrol is getting a new commander.

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Man Charged In Las Vegas Massacre Ammunition Case Changing Plea

Nov 14, 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man plans to change his not guilty plea in a federal case alleging he illegally manufactured bullets sold to the gunman who carried out the Las Vegas Strip massacre, records and attorneys said.

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Reno Traffic Stop Nets 76 Pounds Of Pot, 2 Arrests

Nov 14, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada state trooper who pulled over a car for making an unsafe turn at an intersection near downtown Reno ended up finding 76 pounds of marijuana inside the vehicle.

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Reno Aces Extending Protective Netting To Foul Poles

Nov 14, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Reno Aces have announced plans to extend protective netting from foul pole to foul pole at the downtown stadium that serves as home to the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Triple-A affiliate in the Pacific Coast League.

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