One year ago this week, Nevada’s most powerful federal representative died, but he still continues to play a major role in Silver State politics.
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More than $167 million in community project funding from the omnibus package will support 85 programs in Nevada, said Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto.
Commissioners voted 5-0 Tuesday night to appoint the former Las Vegas councilwoman justice of the peace, which in smaller counties in Nevada does not require a law degree.
The water authority on Tuesday outlined how it thinks the Colorado River basin states and the federal government can drastically cut back on water use along the dwindling Colorado next year.
If you’ve seen a car driving around with a classic vehicle plate and thought, “That’s not a classic,” you could be right.
Only one case has been reported in Clark County this month, as cases dwindle across the U.S. and other countries.
Federal officials underscored the need for urgent action to deal with ongoing drought along the Colorado River at a water users conference in Las Vegas on Friday.
Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager John Entsminger said California and Arizona are going to have to shoulder the brunt of the unprecedented cuts the federal government says are needed next year.
Nevada students will get free lunches again next school year, and state employees will get reimbursed for their COVID-19 furloughs, the Interim Finance Committee decided Thursday.
Gov. Steve Sisolak is asking the Nevada Board of Pardons to consider commuting all death sentences in the state during a meeting scheduled for Tuesday.
“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.”
Things have only gotten worse along the river since Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton asked the Western states to come up with conservation plan, and that decline shows no signs of slowing down.
Veronika Henriques received her green card in the mail, only to be told later that it was issued by mistake and must be returned, another setback in a yearslong fight to become a permanent resident of the United States.
A former employee of the Nevada Supreme Court alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was fired from her job because of a mental illness disability.
David Bobzien, director of the Nevada Governor’s Office of Energy, announced he would be stepping down after Gov. Steve Sisolak’s term ends Jan. 2.
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