Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto introduced a bill to revoke the law making Yucca Mountain, located 90 miles from Las Vegas, a nuclear waste repository.
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Nevada has the highest percentage of public lands of any state in the country. The majority of it is operated by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
President Joe Biden will make multiple stops in the Silver State next Monday and Tuesday, according to the White House.
Nevada’s office of the attorney general and the lawyers for the state’s so-called fake electors are battling it out over whether the case can be tried in Clark County.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office Thursday night announced the death of former Sheriff Sharon Wehrly.
A lawsuit was filed to block a 2024 ballot initiative that would require voters to show ID at the polls.
The Clark County Education Association filed an emergency motion Thursday with the Nevada Supreme Court seeking to halt a preliminary injunction.
State officials expect a decision will soon be made regarding a $4 billion grant application for funding the Las Vegas-to-Southern California high speed rail line.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto plans to introduce legislation to build the pipeline through the national conservation area.
On Friday, the coalition celebrated the area’s permanent protection through its designation as a national monument.
The two proposals show that “the tools available to the federal government are very blunt,” said John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Since the 1980s, Southern Nevada has been banking its unused Colorado River water, storing hundreds of billions of gallons away underground and in Lake Mead.
It would guarantee that state, tribal and local officials have a seat at the table when a permanent nuclear waste repository is proposed in their backyards.
“The common cause that we have to address is climate change induced lower flows,” commission Chair Anne Castle said. “That’s what we have to work on together. It’s not an enemy that we can defeat. It’s one that we have to live with.”
The three ballot questions focused on ranked choice voting, an increase in the minimum wage and adding the equal rights amendment to the Nevada constitution.