Health care was one five critical policy areas discussed Wednesday at the Southern Nevada Forum, a confab with lawmakers to discuss legislative priorities for 2019.
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President Donald Trump and casino mogul Steve Wynn have been bitter competitors who have bad-mouthed each other, sued each other and poached each other’s top employees in a decades-long faceoff as they jostled to be top dog in the high-stakes casino-friendly Atlantic City.
With two days to go in the public comment period, the Bureau of Land Management has received only about 120 unique comments on an ongoing update of its blueprint for Southern Nevada.
In the video, Tech. Sgt. Geraldine Lovely of the 99th Force Support Squadron said she took issue with the attitudes of lower-ranking African American airmen.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke took time out from a two-day visit to the world’s largest firearms industry expo in Las Vegas Friday to help clean up public land trashed by target shooters just south of the valley.
With their federal funding restored, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and Lake Mead National Recreation Area resumed normal operations Tuesday morning.
A former Nevada lawmaker on Monday jumped into the race for a Senate seat coveted by Republicans who spearheaded a failed attempt to recall the current senator.
Periods of below-average snowpack have become increasing common in some Western mountain ranges, including some caused by “wet” drought that results when mountain areas usually blanketed with snow get rain instead.
The scenic loop at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area is now open, and entrance is free. Earlier Sunday, the main entrance gates were locked more than an hour after the posted 6 a.m. opening time.
The government shutdown won’t completely close national parks, including Red Rock Canyon and Lake Mead recreational areas, but the extent of the impacts are unclear.
The Kilopower project, currently undergoing testing at the Nevada National Security Site, aims to develop a small, safe and reliable source of electricity for extended stays on the red planet or unmanned scientific missions in deep space.
GOP lawmakers, the Trump administration and Democrats were sharply divided over public land use and a Nevada standoff between federal law enforcement and a militia led by Cliven Bundy before he was freed from jail. Now those positions have hardened and the battle is moving to Congress.
A U.S. military contractor made headlines this week after posting a “help wanted” ad for a flight attendant job on Janet Air, which flies between McCarran airport and certain, ahem, undisclosed locations in Nevada and elsewhere.
Gov. Brian Sandoval and Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles employees will wear blue Thursday to mark National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and stand in solidarity with the crime’s victims.
Federal land managers launched a major revision of their overall management plan for Southern Nevada in 2008. A decade later, they’re still working on it.