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Extreme heat gripping the Las Vegas Valley will continue into the coming week, with temperatures remaining well above normal throughout the week, the National Weather Service reports.

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Nevada officials are declaring victory over Yucca Mountain — even as some experts cautioned the federal government’s pivot away from the long-stalled and controversial nuclear waste repository may create new problems.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday that five states have agreed to accept nuclear waste from around the country in exchange for federal help to develop nuclear energy and create thousands of jobs, a shift that could permanently scrap plans for the controversial repository about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

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Drivers who use the Airport Connector tunnel near Harry Reid International Airport should expect delays starting Friday, when repaving work begins on a route used by thousands of airport travelers, commuters and resort workers each day.

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Roger Loesch spent eight years fighting the Department of Veterans Affairs for benefits he believed he had already earned. It took an unaccredited company two months to finish the job — and charge him for it.

That’s the trade-off at the center of a growing fight that has reached Congress.

In June, Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., signed on as a cosponsor of the SAFEGUARD Veterans Act, which calls for reinstating criminal penalties against unaccredited companies that charge unauthorized fees and aims to ban predatory tactics in VA benefit assistance. The bill has companion legislation in the U.S. House.

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Gas prices in Nevada kept climbing this week, with the statewide average for a gallon of regular gasoline rising 14 cents to $4.69, according to AAA’s weekly fuel report.

Nationwide, the average price for regular gasoline rose 15 cents from last week to $4.09 per gallon.

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The Henderson City Council on Tuesday set aside a vote on a proposed 180-day moratorium on new data centers, opting instead to direct staff to revise the standards that will govern future applications for such facilities.

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A botched arrest attempt by federal immigration agents last week at Harry Reid International Airport departed from several standard law enforcement practices, according to a retired FBI special agent who reviewed the incident.

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About 6:50 a.m. July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, a Mexican national who had spent decades building homes in Houston, loaded his crew into a van and headed for a construction site. Within minutes, unmarked federal vehicles surrounded him. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent opened fire. Salgado Araujo was pronounced dead at Ben Taub Hospital. A source told CNN he was not the person agents were looking for — a claim ICE has not confirmed.

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Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar isn’t buying what the Trump administration is peddling.

Hours after President Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security claimed to have uncovered hundreds of thousands of noncitizens registered to vote across four states — including Nevada — Aguilar pushed back hard, calling the announcement part of a “predictable playbook” designed to sow doubt about American elections.

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In a two-page letter dated Monday and addressed to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Aguilar told federal officials that Nevada’s office had already addressed the same questions at length in a response letter dated July 25, 2025, and that the most recent DOJ letter — sent simultaneously to all 50 states and the District of Columbia — did not point to a single flaw in Nevada’s voter-list maintenance procedures.

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