r/Nevada

I don't know much about him and can't find a clear answer.

Anyone bought land or a rural property on the outskirts of Las Vegas recently — what was the process like?

My spouse and I picked up a small parcel on the edge of the valley a couple years back and we're finally getting serious about what to do with it. Not talking a full buildout, more like a longterm hold while we sort out the estate side of things and maybe do some gradual improvements to the land itself.

What I keep running into is how patchy the information gets once you leave the city limits. Clark County rules shift, then you hit unincorporated territory and it's a completely different conversation. Water rights alone feel like a separate research project.

We spend a lot of evenings out there watching the sun go down over the desert. Genuinely one of the better decisions we've made. But the practical ownership side is still murky in spots.

Curious if anyone else in Nevada has navigated buying or holding rural land near the metro area and what actually surprised them. Water access, easements, whether an LLC or a trust made more sense for holding it longterm. Nevada has so much open land and yet finding people who have actually dealt with the ownership details feels harder than it should be.

Howdy, I moved here from Texas roughly a year ago. I already thought the DMV was bad enough with the appointment system. Due to the fact that there were no appointments available within a month of moving here to get a driver's license. And even if there was an opening I couldn't make an appointment due to not having a Nevada license. So I had to drive to the Yerington office and get there as soon as they opened. I waited all day till about 4:00 p.m. before I could talk to somebody. I thought that was stupid but at least I had my license and I could do a bunch of stuff online instead of having to go to the DMV now. BUUUUUUT you know what really makes this system stupid. Like genuinely, I'm embarrassed for y'all stupid. Both of my vehicles were out of state vehicles. To register them here online all I had to do was send pictures of my current license plate, my current registration, insurance, and my titles. I had my new plates and registration stickers the next week. Cool right? What's the problem? I just bought a freaking travel trailer and I can't register it online even though I bought it from a Nevada dealer. On the DMV website it shows that I own the travel trailer. They know I just bought it and everything. They have the make, model, VIN, weight, length, EVERYTHING on their freaking website. But I have to go in and register in person before my temporary plate expires......there's no appointments available within those 30 days, let alone 60 days. So now once again I have to drive over an hour away to Yerington or Fallon and sit there all freaking day to register a trailer they know I bought.

That is pathetic and the most moronic bullcrap I have ever seen a agency government do.

Staying connected to loved ones in prison shouldn't drain your bank account.

Right now, calls from Nevada state prison facilities are incredibly expensive. Families already dealing with the stress and shame of incarceration shouldn't have to choose between paying bills and hearing their loved one's voice. Communication matters—it helps people rehabilitate, stay connected to support systems, and it keeps everyone sane.

I started a petition asking Nevada to make calls free or set up an affordable calling contract. Our families deserve to actually *talk* without going broke.

If you've ever had someone on the inside, you know how much those calls cost and how little you can afford them. If this is something you've felt firsthand—or you think it's just plain wrong—consider signing and sharing it. What would you want someone to do if this was your family?

In 2018, the year that the Safe Sport Act took effect, the AAU faced a test of its most significant promise: to remake its culture to protect children.

That January, a woman named Ashlee Orndorff claimed on social media that she had been groomed and sexually abused as a teenager by an AAU executive, its second vice president, Matt Williams, who was also a paid employee of the organization at the time.

Orndorff had been a teenage basketball phenom in the tiny unincorporated town of Hawthorne, Nevada, two hours outside of Reno. She won three state titles and was named the state Gatorade player of the year during her senior year of high school in 2000, setting records that she still holds. But for many of the years that she excelled on the court, Orndorff said, she had carried a terrible secret: Williams, her AAU club coach, had been sexually assaulting her. The abuse began when she was 15, she said, and carried well into her adulthood, resulting in the birth of a child she gave up for adoption at 19.

Williams was more than just a storied coach. He founded the Western region’s most prominent AAU basketball brand, Jam On It, which generated revenue for the AAU through the enormous tournaments it hosted every year.

After Orndorff’s allegations, the AAU pledged to investigate, saying Williams had “volunteered” to be placed on administrative leave. Orndorff’s allegations went before the AAU’s Board of Review a month later. The small group of AAU members, one elected to represent each region, had no training in law, investigation or child sexual abuse, according to Adams, the former board member.

Read more about this investigation with ProPublica at the link above.

Just letting you guys know Zionists are doing another genocide here. I live in Tahoe and a Zionist family moved in next door. I started sending them mail to let them know I'll never support their genocidal mania. Worse yet, I highly suspect they are involved with the elite brainwasher institutuions which are owned by Zionists given they originally are from LA. Is there any recourse we have to Zionists moving in or are we actually going to be subjected to these genocidal freaks living next to us? Is Nevada going to be the new Palestine?

Does anyone have recommendations on the best outlets to post about water rights for sale in Elko County?

This is strictly a curiosity question. I read the regulations and it really just says you can’t be under control of a vessel with a BAC of more than 0.8, be impaired by drugs or alcohol, or having certain blood levels of certain drugs.

My buddy said in AZ that you can drink while captain, but legal BAC limits apply. I found that interesting. Because unlike a car, you can have open containers in the boat and your passengers can be drinking while underway. I’ve searched for a regulation in NV specific to drinking while operating and there’s nothing that says you can’t. Again just curious

Been doing weekend hikes around Nevada for a few years, mostly sticking to the obvious spots near Reno and the Lake Tahoe edge. Starting to feel like I've pulled most of the lowhanging fruit there and want to push further into the state.

Ghost town areas like Rhyolite keep coming up when I browse around, and I get the appeal, but I'm more interested in terrain with actual elevation change or canyon features. Not just flat desert walking. I work long weeks and the weekend trip needs to feel like it paid off.

I've been looking at the Spring Valley area and some spots up near Elko but haven't committed to anything yet. Part of the hesitation is not knowing which access roads are actually passable without high clearance. I drive a standard pickup so I'm not too limited, but I don't want to burn a Saturday on a washedout road situation.

If you've hiked something in rural Nevada in the last year or two that surprised you terrainwise, I'd genuinely want to know what it was and roughly where. Distance from a major highway matters too if you can remember.

Two kittens, Nola and Haven, were adopted together from a Reno rescue. Days later, Haven was abandoned in a dumpster. Nola disappeared. We don't know what happened to her.

The devastating part? Critical information about the adopter existed somewhere in Nevada's system—but it was never shared with the rescue that placed these kittens. If there had been one centralized database of animal abuse convictions and Do Not Adopt lists, this might not have happened.

Right now, Nevada has no statewide system connecting rescues, shelters, animal control, and law enforcement. An abuser can move between counties or organizations and adopt again because nobody talks to anybody else. That's the gap we need to close.

I started this petition asking Nevada lawmakers to create a statewide Animal Abuse and Do Not Adopt database—the kind Tennessee and Delaware already have. Shelters and rescues would check it before approving adoptions. Information would be shared across counties so one animal's story can't be erased between agencies.

No animal should pay the price because information got lost in the cracks.

If this hits home—if you've ever worried about placing a pet in good hands, or felt frustrated watching systems fail animals—consider signing and sharing. What would you want someone to do if it was your pet?

I saw a job posted in Winnemucca, NV. The lowest renting option I saw was a little below $900 and the highest was $2000 for apartments. I dont know how much units they have in the low range and if its hard to secure a place like that if I get the job. It looks like a quiet nice small western town. There is no income tax.

As a single male who likes to socialize. Maybe not good for mental health this area seems isolated. Is it growing?

Does anyone know how easy it is to get a DUI dropped to reckless driving