Tesla will expand battery production in Nevada, opening a small facility using idle equipment from China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology, according to people familiar with the matter. The carmaker plans to buy machinery from CATL, as the battery maker is known, and install it in the city of Sparks, said the people, who asked not to … Read more
Washington — CBS News projects that former President Donald Trump will win the Nevada Republican caucuses Thursday, easily defeating challenger Ryan Binkley. Nevada’s Republican voters had another chance to vote for their preferred presidential candidate in Thursday’s caucuses, with Trump on the ballot this time. The state hosted Republican and Democratic primaries on Tuesday, but … Read more
The top vote-getter in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary in Nevada wasn’t former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, the only major candidate on the ballot still in the race. Instead, Nevada voters mounted a ballot-box protest and gave the most votes to “None of these candidates,” a ballot option required by state law. CBS News projected the … Read more
Las Vegas gearing up to host Super Bowl – CBS News Watch CBS News Las Vegas, a city used to large spectacles, is getting ready to host its first Super Bowl this weekend. Kris Van Cleave takes a look at the preparations. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, … Read more
A proposed high-speed passenger train connecting Las Vegas with LA has been given another boost with the approval of $2.5billion(£1.975billion) in extra funding. The Brightline West railway aims to whisk passengers at 186mph (300kph) or more in electric trains across the Nevada desert in just two hours. It will cost around $12billion to create. The … Read more
There are now a pair of border crises coming front and center into the race for the White House. The first is occurring hundreds of miles from either Mexico or Canada, in Washington D.C., where lawmakers recently learned their months-long efforts at reaching a compromise over new border security legislation may have been torpedoed by … Read more
A LOT of hotel guests don’t like to have people going into their room while they’re out. One way they can prevent others from entering is to put the ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on their door. 2 Some hotels will send the police to your door if it’s been on for too longCredit: Getty However, … Read more
Image: Robyn Beck (AP) Las Vegas seems to be on a roll with bad ideas lately. There’s the whole debacle that was the 2023 Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix. There’s a new ordinance that could land you in jail for up to six months and hit you with a $1,000 fine if you block … Read more
More than a century ago, miners claimed to have found two ancient mummies at what is now Yosemite National Park. The news spread like wildfire across America. A mummified woman — said to be a “giantess mummy” at almost 7 feet tall — was reported to be cradling a mummified child in her arms when … Read more
Cars drive through the fresh snow at Tahoe Donner, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. Andrew Chamings/SFGATE California Highway Patrol has closed Interstate 80 off to westbound traffic in Truckee after snowy conditions caused multiple collisions and spinouts over Donner Summit on Saturday, the agency announced. Closures are impacting westbound traffic in Truckee and at the Nevada state … Read more
