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Overview
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is Nevada's largest newspaper by circulation and the main paper for Clark County and the Eighth Judicial District Court, and the Las Vegas Sun publishes alongside it. The Reno Gazette Journal covers Washoe County and northern Nevada, the Nevada Appeal covers Carson City and the legislature, the Elko Daily Free Press covers the mining country, and the Sierra Nevada Media weeklies, the Ely Times, the Pahrump Valley Times and the Boulder City Review cover their towns. The Nevada Independent covers state government and gaming online.
Nevada newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for trustee's sales, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 17 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the district court case searches in Clark and Washoe counties.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Nevada Newspapers
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Major Nevada newspapers and what they cover
The Review-Journal covers Las Vegas, the gaming industry, the Clark County courts and the federal court, with back issues from the 1900s onward in the digital archives. The Sun covers the same city with a focus on politics and investigations. The Gazette Journal covers Reno, Sparks and the University of Nevada, the Appeal covers the Capitol and the Nevada Supreme Court, and the Free Press covers Elko County and the gold mines. Rural weeklies such as the Humboldt Sun in Winnemucca, the Mineral County Independent-News and the Lincoln County Record carry county commission minutes, sheriff's reports and district court notices.
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Historic Nevada newspapers online
The Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records in Carson City holds newspaper microfilm for the whole state, and Nevada titles from the Comstock era onward appear in Chronicling America through the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project at the University of Nevada, Reno. The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District provides free access to the Review-Journal archive with a library card, and UNLV's Special Collections holds early Las Vegas titles and the Sun archive.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Nevada
Nevada law requires trustee's sale notices, notices to creditors in probate, name changes, tax sales, unclaimed property lists and county and city notices to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and the Nevada Press Association collects them in a statewide search. Obituaries run in the Review-Journal, the Gazette Journal and the regional papers, and the Nevada State Library keeps an obituary index. Court coverage pairs with the Clark County and Washoe County district court case searches.
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Straight answers
Nevada Newspaper Directory, questions
What is Nevada's largest newspaper by circulation?
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, followed by the Las Vegas Sun, the Reno Gazette Journal, the Nevada Appeal in Carson City and the Elko Daily Free Press. The Nevada Independent covers state government online.
Where are historic Nevada newspapers online?
Chronicling America carries Nevada titles from the Comstock era onward through the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project, and the Nevada State Library holds the rest on microfilm.
Where are Nevada trustee's sale notices published?
In a newspaper of general circulation in the county, collected in the Nevada Press Association's statewide public notice search.