The family of a 27-year-old Nevada woman who died in police custody last year has sued the county sheriff’s office, accusing deputies of failing to provide her with necessary medical attention when she asked for it, thus contributing to her death. According to the suit, deputies also failed to notice that she had been…
If you are constantly treading water in a news cycle of endless shit, here’s a raft to keep you afloat: Women, who are currently running for office in record numbers, may soon be taking over the state of Nevada. The Reno-Gazette Journal reports that the state could become the first to elect a majority-woman state…
The future of some of Nevada’s most well-known brothels is in voters’ hands, according to the Associated Press. A November ballot initiative seeks to shut down the four legal brothels in Lyon County, all of which are owned by Dennis Hof, who is currently running as a Trump-loving Republican candidate for the Nevada…
In 1986, Burning Man began as a small act of ritualized catharsis among a few friends on San Francisco’s Baker Beach. Thirty-one years later, it’s ballooned into the Instagram-ready juggernaut it is today, and it’s only getting bigger. The festival’s organizing body is meeting with the Bureau of Land Management to…
Are you the sort of person who is keen on clowns? Would you even maybe—possibly—say that you’re down to clown? Well then, my buddy, do I have the real estate property for you: the Clown Motel.
Madeleine Pickens runs a dude ranch and wild horse sanctuary in Nevada, kind of a horse lover’s country club, called Mustang Monument Wild Horse Eco-Resort.
On Wednesday, President Obama designated two national monuments in Utah and Nevada, covering more than 1.6 million acres across the two states. While the decision is a victory for the coalition of conservationists and Native American tribes who supported the sites’ designation, it is also likely to become yet another…
This is turning into an unspeakably heartbreaking night, but there are real victories too: Catherine Cortez Masto has been elected to the U.S. Senate in Nevada. She is first Latina senator in the history of this country, and won despite the Koch brothers spending millions to try to defeat her.
Your shitty racist uncle Donald Trump is taking all the credit for pallid Pullman loaf Mike Pence’s performance in the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday because naturally, he can’t let anyone have anything for themselves.
The presidential election isn’t the only nightmare awaiting us in November. Welcome to Congressional Cacophony, a feature on The Slot about House and Senate races that really, really matter. Suggestions? Pitches? Email us.
A Las Vegas Justice of the Peace named Conrad Hafen had a public defender handcuffed in court while she was arguing to keep one of her clients out of jail. Hafen forced Zohra Bakhtary to sit in the dock in cuffs next to jail inmates after he accused her of interrupting him.
Last week, Nevada Democratic State Party Chairwoman Roberta Lange was mobbed by harassment and death threats from irate Bernie Sanders fans who suspected her of handing the state to Hillary Clinton. On Saturday, Lange, a Mariners fan, tried to tweet lightheartedly about baseball. Guess how that went?
Thanks to some extremely zealous Bernie Sanders supporters, the Nevada State Democratic Convention this past weekend was a particularly epic disaster, devolving into yelling, graffiti, chair-throwing and many, many threats and insults phoned in to Democratic State Party Chairwoman Roberta Lange. Yesterday, we called…
Over the weekend, the Nevada Democratic Party convention turned into a bit of a sideshow. According to multiple reports, Bernie Sanders supporters—angry over a convention that they argued was rigged against them—threw chairs, rushed the stage, and sent threats to chairwoman Roberta Lange. The convention was eventually …
Election got you feeling a little worn out, like you just wanna run away from it all? Same, same. Luckily there’s a little town in Nevada currently for sale with a price tag of just $8 million. It’s got an airstrip, a motel, a diner, and a casino—all of life’s basic essentials, in other words.
Donald Trump, a GOP presidential hopeful whose toupees gleam like they are woven from the finest of straw, has been declared the winner of the Nevada Republican caucuses, according the Associated Press.
I used to be embarrassed by the fact that Las Vegas is one of my favorite vacation destinations, but whatever: I’m now at a point in my life where I am confident enough to embrace the weird joys of a place where the Mojave glows bright with organized chaos.
Dennis Hof, the man behind the Moonlite Bunny Ranch and HBO’s Cathouse has publicly banned Josh Duggar from ever entering any of the brothel’s establishments. And while no one specifically asked Hof about his thoughts on the Duggars, he’s put out a press release about them anyway, saying that he’ll do anything to…
On Monday, Darren Sharper, alleged serial rapist and fallen NFL star, is expected to take a plea deal settling a myriad of rape and drugging charges involving women in California, Nevada, Louisiana and Arizona. The hearings are slated to take place in Los Angeles, the city where he's been in jail since last year.
