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.
A Carson City judge has ruled legislative Democrats cannot rely on attorneys with the Legislative Counsel Bureau.
Some of Nevada’s 34 occupational licensing boards have hired lawyers and lobbyists with user fee money, some of whom occasionally advocate against the interests of the state.
A two-day court hearing on a controversial and embattled proposal to pump groundwater from rural eastern Nevada to the Las Vegas Valley gets underway Tuesday in Ely.
Peter Long, who replaces Deonne Contine, has headed the state human resources division since 2016 and previously served 12 years as division deputy.
Three Nevada Board of Dental Examiners members resigned Thursday and two staffers were terminated after a Review-Journal investigation into the board.
Frank LaPena who spent decades in prison after being convicted of being the mastermind behind the murder of a Caesars Palace executive’s wife, was granted a pardon by the state Pardons Board on Wednesday.