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Long lines kept polls open past the 7 p.m. posted closing time at locations that included a Mexican market and several shopping centers.

Advocates on both sides of the gay marriage debate predicted that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that overturned part of a federal ban on gay marriage would create a pathway for states to act.

Police say two people are dead and two more are injured in a shooting at Sparks Middle School in northern Nevada Monday morning.

More than 100 elk were found dead on an area ranch 20 miles northwest of Las Vegas earlier this week. According to to the New Mexico Game and Fish, none of the animals were shot and their investigation is leaning toward Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease...

Two mountain wildfires continue raging in Nevada.

Lawmakers in Nevada are working on legislation that could someday lead to cars driving themselves on streets and highways in the state.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Republicans have finally finished counting the votes in their Saturday presidential caucuses. As projected, Mitt Romney won handily, finishing with 50 percent. Newt Gingrich was second with 21 percent, edging out Ron Paul who had 19 percent of the vote...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A joint venture that's trying to develop a new electric transmission network has purchased one of the major transmission line projects planned in Wyoming. Duke-American Transmission Co. announced Monday that it acquired the Zephyr project from a subsidiary of Wyoming-based Pathfinder Renewable Energy LLC...

YouTube A bill has passed in Nevada that makes it legal for Google’s fleet of driverless cars to take to the state’s roads. The hope is that in the future, these automated cars could avoid the crashes currently caused by distracted driving. Several companies are already hard at work creating the technology necessary to make it happen.