The Nevada Department of Corrections announced the deaths of five inmates on Thursday, including three convicted murderers.

A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...

A Nevada death row inmate is requesting a court hearing, pursuing what federal public defenders say is his right to the clemency process.

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month ...

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said he is still waiting for a police review of the shooting in which Brandon ...

BLM kicks off year two of Fire Science program at AACT in Reno Multiple organizations, including BLM Nevada, Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District and Living with Fire at the University of Nevada, ...

A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat, Nevada. NPR's science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel was among them. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news ...

Utica, N.Y. — An inmate who was badly injured last month at a Central New York state prison has died, his family said. The inmate, Edward Sholtz, 22, died Sunday at Wynn Hospital in Utica ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HRUBY: Other experiments are conducted underground at the former Nevada test site ... across this beautiful, empty desert landscape where the U.S. government ...

Nevada has a divided government. The Republican Party controls the office of governor, while the Democratic Party controls the offices of attorney general, secretary of state, and both chambers of the ...

Students at one elementary school in the Phoenix area are getting lessons in health eating, thanks to a non-profit ...