Henderson and North Las Vegas soon will be able to sponsor and oversee charter schools, after the Nevada Department of Education gave its blessing this week.
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A political action committee says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ineligible to appear on the November ballot unless he resubmits his petition to comply with Nevada law.
The Department of Interior announced a $700 million investment in water conservation projects in the Lower Colorado River Basin.
Lithium abounds in Nevada’s federal lands and could hold the key to moving away from fossil fuels. But some worry about the environmental impact of lithium mining.
County fair horse races in White Pine and Elko counties are among rural Nevada’s most important tourism events.
The agency alleges that when state employees are reemployed after military service, the Public Employees’ Retirement System violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act of 1994.
A nonprofit will push for legislation that will help veterans receive compensation for their exposure to toxic chemicals while working at a nuclear test site in the 1980s.
Veterans who worked at sites in Nevada in the 1980s are seeking compensation for health problems they’ve experienced in the decades since.
The U.S. Senate approved Thursday the proposed expansion of the U.S. Navy’s Fallon Range Training Complex.
Nevada’s congressional delegation finalized an agreement that will expand the complex, put land into conservation and give Native American tribes funding and land.
The governor’s proclamation also recognizes the state’s namesake battleship, the USS Nevada, which was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the 1941 attack.
A House-Senate compromise version of the annual defense bill does not include military land transfers of public lands for the Air Force and Navy in Nevada.
Six more residents and four employees at the Southern Nevada State Veterans Home have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week, the state announced Thursday.
At UNLV, the measure will particularly help students who were taking only online classes by ensuring they receive their full housing benefit.
The Nevada National Guard’s deployment in response to the state’s coronavirus crisis expanded sharply Tuesday and will now be the largest state activation in its history.