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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

LAS VEGAS ( FOX5) — Opportunity 180, a nonprofit in Las Vegas dedicated to improving and creating high-quality schools, has received the largest grant of its kind in state history from the U.S. Department of Education, officials said.

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.

The final week of the regular season is upon us in the 5A/4A and, while the top spots are locked in, there are still some seeds up for grabs.