[ noun ] a state in the southwestern United States <noun.location>
Strommen said the West is severely lacking in moisture from reduced snowpack during the winter, which resulted in "well-below-normal" reservoir levels in much of the region, including Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Nevada.
Nevada voters approved a measure to protect abortion rights.
More than 3,000 lightning strikes were reported overnight in Oregon, Washington, Nevada, California and Idaho.
Democrats bolstered their majority control of the Senate by ousting three-term GOP maverick Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, who refused to concede defeat, and by capturing Republican seats in Virginia, Nevada and Nebraska.
He added that the joint monitoring program will continue with a U.S. test set for Aug. 17 in Nevada and the Soviet test scheduled for mid-September.
"One reason it was set then is because it was so hot in Nevada," says Howard Nelson, director of science and technology information at RPI.
Federal officials knew that workers at the Nevada Test Site were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation from nuclear bomb blasts in the 1950s and '60s, according to government records cited by The New York Times.
Several civilians exposed to fallout from the Nevada Test Site during the 1950s have won judgments in federal courts only to have them overturned on appeal because of a federal law that generally shields the government from lawsuits.
Nevada National, based in Reno, Nev., is a one-bank holding company with 26 branches throughout Nevada.
Nevada National, based in Reno, Nev., is a one-bank holding company with 26 branches throughout Nevada.
A federal appeals court today upheld the tax evasion conviction that led to the imprisonment and removal from office of U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne of Nevada.
The main fire, which began Sunday morning along Highway 49 about 30 miles northwest of Nevada City, was apparently caused by an illegal burn of debris, said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Ann Dow.
Mr. Udall's plan, supported by environmentalists, would postpone further testing of potential underground-storage sites in Texas, Nevada and Washington state until the commission presents its findings to Congress.
More than 50,000 ribbons were distributed to schools, government agencies and businesses in Nevada by the Governor's Alliance for a Drug Free Nevada in observance of National Drug Free America Week, which began Sunday.
More than 50,000 ribbons were distributed to schools, government agencies and businesses in Nevada by the Governor's Alliance for a Drug Free Nevada in observance of National Drug Free America Week, which began Sunday.
The Nevada Supreme Court has refused to drop the rock group Judas Priest from a lawsuit filed on behalf of a youth who killed himself and another who attempted suicide after listening to the band's music.
Snow fell at higher elevations of Utah, with 5 inches at the Alta ski resort, and light snow lingered in northeastern Nevada, the National Weather Service said.
Clear skies prevailed across California and Nevada.
At one point, the state legislature offered to pay $20 million to ship the dirt by train to Nevada.
The pipeline carries gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from a tank farm in nearby Colton, several miles from the blast site, to southern Nevada, supplying the Las Vegas Valley with 90 percent of its fuel.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board voted to extend the gaming license of the troubled Aladdin hotel-casino in Las Vegas until Oct. 11, giving owner Ginji Yasuda time to explore a sale of the property.
Cole said Phoenix-based Ramada will keep its four casinos _ one in Atlantic City, N.J., and three in Nevada _ and concentrate on turning a profit.
The devices will be the sixth and seventh tested this year at the Nevada site.
The equipment which left Nevada on Friday will be used for an experiment tentatively scheduled in July to test a U.S. technique known as CORRTEX, in which the size of a nuclear blast is measured through a cable within 15 yards of a test shaft.
Raised on a farm in Nevada, she began studying music but soon turned to chemistry, a subject more suited to someone she describes as "strait-laced" as herself.
Clouds and drizzle prevailed over Minnesota and the Dakotas. Cloudy skies lingered over much of the Northeast and California and Nevada.
Gore won six states: North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Nevada.
In California's Sierra Nevada foothills, firefighters on Tuesday contained a blaze that burned 11,700 acres of brush and grassland and destroyed seven homes.
It's really scary," said Billy Marr, head of the Tuolumne County Water System, in the Sierra Nevada, which is considering rationing.
Anthropologists were able to identify more than 130 individuals, the most ever found at a prehistoric site in Nevada, officials said.