Washoe County filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy this week, seeking to block plans to downsize operations and relocate its outgoing mail processing facility from Reno to Sacramento.
Nevada
Seven jails are now fully in compliance with a law that requires the facilities create a process for inmates to vote while in jail.
Workers in Nevada will see a bump in the state’s minimum wage this summer.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
The Nevada Higher System of Education Board of Regents approved a four-year contract for Kumud Acharya, who was appointed interim president in September 2019.
In a message on UNR’s website, President Marc Johnson issued a stern warning about students partying off campus without practicing social distancing or wearing masks.
A search committee will interview the finalists next week at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The regents hired an outside attorney with Title IX experience to provide “advice and counsel” regarding the incident involving Chief of Staff Dean Gould at an Aug. 7 meeting.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday that students with an F-1 academic visa or M-1 vocational visa can’t take online-only classes during the fall semester.