Latest Nevada Headlines
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Native Seed Shortage Hampers Nevada, Utah Wildfire Recovery
Oct 30 2012 // High demand for native plant seeds in Nevada and Utah is pushing up the price and leaving short supplies following an extreme wildfire year that burned millions of acres nationally. In the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah,...
Survey: 4th of Nevada Drivers Use Hand-Held Phones
Oct 24 2012 // A statewide survey shows 27 percent of Nevadans still use hand-held telephones while driving, despite a state law banning the practice that took effect Jan. 1. University of Nevada, Reno, researchers say the third annual...
Clark County Asks Nevada For Disaster Aid After Floods
Oct 4 2012 // Clark County commissioners are asking the state of Nevada for disaster relief funds in the aftermath of flash floods that killed two people and caused an estimated $2.6 million in damages to government property. The...
Danger in Air Again At Reno National Air Races
Sep 13 2012 // The annual air race in Nevada’s Valley of Speed has a new name. Fans returning to see vintage World War II fighter planes streak across the sky will sit farther away. And a redesigned course poses less risk as pilots...
$77 Million Fund Created For Nev. Air Race Victims
Aug 27 2012 // Organizers of the Reno National Championship Air Races have established a $77 million fund to be distributed to those who suffered injuries or lost family members in last year’s mass-casualty crash in Nevada. Kenneth...
Wildfires: Sage Grouse Habitat Loss Could Impact Nevada Insureds
Aug 16 2012 // If you’re a business in Nevada, it may not be immediately clear why you should be concered with the state’s nearly dozen wildfires that are consuming almost 600,000 acres and destroying sage grouse habitat. But...
Board Oks $72M To Set Up Nevada Insurance Exchange
Aug 16 2012 // A state board approved a $72 million contract Tuesday to implement a health insurance exchange in Nevada under the federal Affordable Care Act, but Gov. Brian Sandoval said the program will need to become self-sustaining...
Nevada Patrol Issues 4,500 Tickets To Nevada Cellphone Users
Jul 30 2012 // The Nevada Highway Patrol has issued more than 4,500 citations to drivers using cellphones this year under a new state law. The Elko Daily Free Press reported the numbers from the Nevada Department of Transportation. The...
Nevada to Exit NIMA
Jul 23 2012 // Nevada is leaving the surplus lines tax clearinghouse to which it belongs, Nevada’s insurance commissioner confirmed this month. Nevada is the latest in a string of states to exit the Non-Admitted Insurance...
United Valley Adds Nine in Arizona and Nevada
Jul 12 2012 // Fresno, Calif.-based-United Valley Insurance Services Inc., a network of independently owned insurance agencies, has expanded its operations to include five new members in Arizona and four new members in Nevada. United...
Nevada to Exit NIMA
Jul 3 2012 // Nevada is leaving the surplus lines tax clearinghouse to which it belongs, Nevada’s insurance commissioner confirmed Tuesday. Nevada’s departure is the latest in a string of states to exit the Non-Admitted...
Lawsuits In Nevada Amtrak Mishap Claim Crossing Defects
Jul 3 2012 // Four lawsuits filed on behalf of victims of last year’s Amtrak-truck crash in northern Nevada claim railroad crossing gates either came down late or not at all. The children of an Amtrak conductor killed in the June...
Independent Nevada Doctors to Merge with ProAssurance
Jun 27 2012 // ProAssurance Corp. (NYSE: PRA) announced that Independent Nevada Doctors Insurance Exchange, a Nevada reciprocal exchange, will become part of ProAssurance through a conversion from a reciprocal to a stock insurance...
NV Couple Sues Boy Scouts Over Son’s UT Drowning
Jun 18 2012 // A Las Vegas couple has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America over the July 2011 drowning of their 12-year-old son during a camp program in northern Utah. Christopher and Sherry Tuvell, in their...
More Than 2,000 Residents Ticketed For Cellphone Violations In Nevada
Jun 18 2012 // More than 2,000 northern Nevadans have been ticketed for cellphone-related traffic violations in the five months since the use of handheld phones has been banned in motor vehicles. The Nevada Highway Patrol, Reno police...
Investigators Probe Death In Nevada Tunnel Accident
Jun 14 2012 // State safety regulators in southern Nevada on Tuesday began investigating a fatal construction accident in a water supply tunnel being built at Lake Mead, the latest in a series of mishaps and setbacks at the multi-million...
New Earthquake Faults Uncovered West Of Lake Tahoe
May 31 2012 // Scientists studying earthquake faults in the mountains west of Lake Tahoe say new, high-resolution imaging technology has helped uncover more substantial seismic hazards than previously thought to exist there. The steep,...
Nevada Lawyer Files Another Suit Over Motorcycle Helmets
May 30 2012 // An attorney has filed another lawsuit challenging southern Nevada’s authorities’ enforcement of a state law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets. The Las Vegas Sun reported Travis Barrick is taking a...
Brown & Brown Acquires Insurcorp Assets
May 17 2012 // Brown & Brown Insurance of Nevada Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired certain assets of Insurcorp and Maalouf Benefit Resources, which recently combined under the name Insurcorp. Following the...
Nevada Issues First Autonomous Vehicle Test License to Google
May 8 2012 // The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has approved an application for a license by Google Inc. to test autonomous vehicles on Nevada public roads, DMV announced this week. It is the first license issued in the United...
