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.
As part of the Oakland Athletics’ nonrelocation agreement, the team could play seven home games per season away from Las Vegas and its planned Strip ballpark.
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.
The Nevada Supreme Court rejected a teachers union effort to put public funding for the Oakland Athletics’ planned Las Vegas ballpark on November’s ballot.
The Oakland Athletics filed a motion to intervene in a teachers union-backed lawsuit aimed at halting the team’s public stadium financing.
O.J. Simpson, the NFL great who was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife and her friend in one of the most notorious trials of the 20th century, and was later incarcerated in Nevada for an unrelated robbery, died of cancer.
The Nevada Supreme Court did not render a decision after hearing arguments regarding a challenge to the Oakland Athletics’ public funding bill.
Oral arguments over a Nevada district judge’s decision to block Schools Over Stadiums’ proposed referendum petition to stop public funds for the Las Vegas ballpark have been scheduled.
“The hospitality here, you outdid it,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. “I think it’s safe to say the NFL looks forward to coming back.”
A second education group is challenging a Nevada Legislature bill that provides public funding to help build an Athletics ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip.
The A’s lobbyists filing is centered on Schools Over Stadiums not providing the full text of Senate Bill 1, the stadium funding bill, in their petition referendum.