A man was killed when his ATV crashed in the Las Vegas desert, making it the second such death in a month. Las Vegas police say the accident happened shortly before 7:30 Sunday morning in a dry lake bed near the town of Jean. According to evidence and witness statements, the 39-year-old man was traveling on a Yamaha Banshee ATV by himself when his vehicle became airborne. Upon landing, the rider was thrown. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident remains under investigation.

Officials with the Bureau of Land Management said a fire has emerged four days after lightning strikes sparked 18 other fires in the area on Tuesday. The Rock Hill Fire was sparked by lightning about 20 miles southwest of Winnemucca. The blaze has burned an estimated 1,660 acres and is about 20 percent contained. Around 210 personnel are fighting the blaze. Crews are using three heavy air tankers, two helicopters, nine engines, four dozers, two water tenders, and two hotshot crews to fight the flames.. It's burning just east of the Monroe Fire, which has burned over 11,000 acres.

Fire engines were dispatched to a home on the 2200 block of Hunter Lake Drive Saturday night around 8pm. When Firefighters arrived they found the garage of a home fully engulfed in flames. Ammunition stored in that garage was exploding while firefighters were trying to work making for dangerous conditions. The garage received significant damage but the house itself was spared. Cable television and phone lines also caught fire knocking out service to Charter customers for several hours. No injuries were reported.

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a body was found in the Truckee River over the weekend.

Two people are dead and one person is injured after a vehicle went off a cliff in Carson City.

Mustang Monument is an eco-resort south of Wells, where travelers come to see the hundreds of wild horses Madeleine Pickens rescues from the BLM. Someone vandalized the ranch last week, leaving more than a dozen wild horses dead.

Nevada officials face yet another obstacle in carrying out the death penalty if an inmate exhausts their final appeal. One of the two drugs that make up the lethal injection has expired, and companies that produce it refuse on principle to give the state any more. The state also hasn't had a usable execution chamber since about 2011, when one at the shuttered Nevada State Prison fell out of compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act. A new chamber is under construction in Ely at a cost of $858,000 and should be ready by November.There are 80 people on Nevada's death row, but no executions are pending. State officials plan to reach out to pharmaceutical companies nationwide in hopes of finding a supplier.

Mustang Monument, an "eco-resort" south of Wells that houses hundreds of wild horses rescued from the BLM, was vandalized last week, resulting in the deaths of over a dozen horses. It's run by the wife of energy billionaire T. Boone Pickens.