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Arizona State extends Hurley through 2025-26 season
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State has agreed to a contract extension with men's basketball coach Bobby Hurley that runs through the 2025-26 season. The deal announced on Tuesday is subject to approval by the Arizona Board of Regents. Hurley's previous contract was set to expire...
Nevada's most populous county appoints new elections head
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The county comprising about three quarters of Nevada’s registered voters announced a new elections director on Tuesday. Lorena Portillo will succeed Joe Gloria, who ran elections in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, for nearly a decade and worked in the...
Biden creates national monuments in Nevada, Texas mountains
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday he is establishing national monuments on more than half a million acres in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary in U.S. waters near the Pacific Remote Islands southwest of Hawaii. The conservation measures are “protecting the heart...
Nevada to add gas plant as drought threatens power grids
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Utility regulators in Nevada gave the state’s largest power provider clearance to start work on a $333 million project to build a natural gas plant in the state for the first time in nearly 15 years, signaling yet another consequence of the extreme drought conditions in the...
No telling how much more snow coming for Sierra Nevada
RENO, Nev. (AP) — No one really knows how much snow fell on the infamous Donner Party when the pioneers were trapped atop the Sierra Nevada for months and dozens died near Lake Tahoe in the winter of 1846-47. But this season has now etched its way into the history books as the...
Supreme Court seems split in Navajo Nation water rights case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed split Monday as it weighed a dispute involving the federal government and the Navajo Nation’s quest for water from the drought-stricken Colorado River. States that draw water from the river — Arizona, Nevada and Colorado — and water...
With overdoses up, states look at harsher fentanyl penalties
RENO, Nev. (AP) — State lawmakers nationwide are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history by pushing harsher penalties for possessing fentanyl and other powerful lab-made opioids that are connected to about 70,000 deaths a year. Imposing longer prison sentences...
Election conspiracy movement grinds on as 2024 approaches
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — One by one, the presenters inside the crowded hotel ballroom shared their computer screens and promised to show how easy it is to hack into voting systems across the U.S. Drawing gasps from the crowd, they highlighted theoretical vulnerabilities and problems...
Today in History: March 18, Hitler and Mussolini join forces
Today in History Today is Saturday, March 18, the 77th day of 2023. There are 288 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On March 18, 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to...
Feds want justices to end Navajo fight for Colo. River water
States that rely on water from the over-tapped Colorado River want the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit from the Navajo Nation that could upend how water is shared in the Western U.S. The tribe doesn't have enough water and says that the federal government is at fault. Roughly...
