Former President Donald Trump will speak in Sunset Park at noon Sunday in temperatures that could reach 104 degrees.
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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.
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.
New cases were lower than the totals reported over the past three days, when a major surge in infections occurred.
Nevada will stay in Phase Two of its COVID-19 recovery plan possibly until the end of the July under an extension announced Monday by Gov. Steve Sisolak.
A new political action committee has formed to fight the mandate to wear masks to reduce exposure to the coronavirus and to punish politicians who support the rule.
It was the third straight day the health district reported more than 600 new cases in a 24-hour period, though the Saturday and Sunday counts were both inflated by older cases.
As the coronavirus ravages state budgets, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto plans to push for the Senate to take up a House bill to provide local governments with federal assistance.
Young people, who tend not to get as sick from the coronavirus, are largely behind the recent surge in the state to record case levels, even as deaths have been declining.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 4041 has filed a labor complaint, saying Gov. Steve Sisolak is not following the state’s collective bargaining law.
The Southern Nevada Health District posted the data on the day that Gov. Steve Sisolak’s directive requiring people to wear face masks in nearly all public spaces took effect.
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.
Both jurisdictions also reported one additional death as the recent surge in new cases continues.