Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller says he’ll run for re-election to the Senate in 2018 rather than running for governor. Heller announced his plan in a statement on Facebook and through Twitter on Thursday. He said serving as governor would be an enormous honor, but he believes he can do the most good as Nevada’s…… MORE

Nevada won’t be able to implement a ballot measure that narrowly passed a statewide vote and calls for background checks on gun sales because neither the state nor the FBI will do the checks.  Question 1 called for FBI background checks on private-party gun sales. But the FBI informed the state earlier this month that…… MORE

The Nevada Division of Public Behavioral Health is investigating a cyber-attack on its Medical Marijuana Program database. They say application information about people with “medical marijuana agent cards”, such as employees and owners of medical marijuana establishments, have been disclosed. That information includes social security numbers and dates of birth. The department says they believe…… MORE

Sparks Police are asking for help finding a burglary suspect who took merchandise from the Kohl’s on Pyramid Way Monday afternoon. Kohl’s Loss prevention employees saw the man take four video games, place them in a cart, and leave the store without paying for them. The employees confronted the man outside and saw he had…… MORE

The Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada is reporting a series of earthquakes felt throughout northern Nevada and in California. The first, a magnitude 5.8, hit at 12:18 a.m. this morning, 18 miles southwest of Hawthorne, Nevada. That quake was followed by six more over the next hour ranging from 3.5 to 5.7…… MORE