A senior member of the House Aviation subcommittee, Rep. Dina Titus backed the FAA Reauthorization Act, which will provide funding for general aviation airports.
Nevada
The Las Vegas Review-Journal owner and majority shareholder of Las Vegas Sands Corp. will be a major backer of the Preserve America super PAC.
Nevada’s approximately 13,000 home care workers could see big increases to minimum wage and reimbursement rates under legislative proposals presented Thursday.
Nevada officials, including Gov. Joe Lombardo and Sen. Jacky Rosen, have urged the U.S. Postal Service to reconsider plans to move the mail center to California.
The ACLU of Nevada said seven jails, including several in the Las Vegas Valley, are now complying with a law requiring a process for inmates to vote while in jail.
With COVID-19 at medium levels in Clark County, the health district recommends indoor mask use for those 65 and older or with underlying health conditions.
Cases and hospitalizations in Clark County and statewide plateau this week after increasing the prior week for the first time in three months.
Clark County reported fewer hospitalizations from COVID-19 this week as vaccines began rolling out for children 6 months to 5 years old in Southern Nevada on Wednesday.
A Republican state senator wants Nevada to audit all COVID spending, saying a company with faulty virus tests was allowed to operate because of ties to Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak.
Official case counts can be misleading, with a new study showing more than three uncounted cases for every confirmed case.
Rep. Susie Lee demanded accountability for a company that contracted with local governments in Nevada for COVID-19 testing but whose results were almost entirely wrong.
“We’re starting to see a slight uptick in positive cases, so anything somebody can do to protect themselves and if you do get COVID, it’d be a lot less severe,” Gov. Steve Sisolak said.
Clark County’s case rate per 100,000 people, another key CDC metric, also increased this week from 86.07 to 110.69.
Gov. Steve Sisolak announced on Friday that he intends to end the state of emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
More transmissible variants, waning immunity and unmasking are among the reasons for the growing number of COVID reinfections.