Dust off those cowboy boots and grab your best wide-brim hat — it’s almost time to celebrate Nevada’s birthday, wild west–style!The 2025 Nevada Day Parade retu

Nevada Day is on Friday, Oct. 31. Here's a list of what's open, closed and when the parade is. Plus, an interactive quiz on state trivia.

Last year's Capitol Christmas tree was an 80-foot Sitka spruce harvested in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. In 2023, a 63-foot Norway spruce was harvested from Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The last time the tree came from the Sierra Nevada was in 2011, when a 65-foot Sierra white fir was harvested from Stanislaus National Forest.

On Oct. 27, the Nevada Department of Corrections reported that a man was stabbed to death at High Desert State Prison.

The study analyzed data from about 6,500 wells across Nevada and found that about 40% had significant declines over the last three decades.

Nevada sportsbooks roared back to life with the start of the NFL season in September — at least in terms of betting handle — as they claimed $54.3 million in revenue according to figures released Wednesday by the state’s Gaming Control Board.

A troika of prediction market announcements last week was the latest example of the warp-speed expansion across the U.S. and into Nevada, coupled with the snail’s pace of nearly two dozen lawsuits between the businesses and gaming regulators.

Online and retail sports betting operators saw a streak of monthly year-over-year profit increases halted by September’s 32.8% drop in revenue.

Police evacuated residents and issued a shelter-in-place order Tuesday morning after a suspicious item was found in Goodsprings, roughly 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas.

Union Army reenactors march to their spot on the battlefield at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park on Sunday morning. The two-day event, titled Civil War Days in the Battle Born State, was put on, in part, by the Southern Nevada Living History Association. Photo by: Erin Dostal