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.
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Five-year projections, which the Bureau of Reclamation releases three times a year, are showing that snowpack may have boosted Lake Mead.
Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, cast Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and threw their support behind Pres. Joe Biden during an event in Las Vegas Wednesday.
Henderson and North Las Vegas filed a petition in March challenging a policy change that affected nonvoting school board members’ power during meetings.
District Judge Joanna Kishner ordered Meta to provide more information to the state of Nevada on its policies regarding children on its platforms.
The Clark County School Board approved a tentative $3.4 billion budget for the 2024-25 school year. The tentative budget now will be filed with the State of Nevada for review.
More than a third of Clark County School District students were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year, according to state officials.
The negotiated agreement, approved by an arbitrator, came after a long period of negotiations and disputes between the teachers union and the school district.
Nevada Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro called Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara’s administration a “failure”
Speaker Steve Yeager said now is the time for new leadership in the Clark County School District, which said Jesus Jara will remain in his position.
The Clark County School District plans to use the funding to implement a literacy and language skills program.
The Nevada State Board of Education approved draft language for a new regulation that would eventually require high school classes to begin no earlier than 8 a.m.
Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro said school districts have the ability to access new education funding authorized by the Legislature to pay teachers and staff “what they’re owed.”
Teachers told Nevada legislators a law has hindered their ability to immediately deal with disruptive and violent students.
The Community Schools Initiative received notice from state officials that it didn’t gather enough valid signatures to send the measure to the 2023 Legislature.