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.
Nevada has reached a $193 million settlement with Teva Pharmaceuticals in an opioid-related lawsuit, the attorney general’s office announced.
A former employee of the Nevada Supreme Court alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was fired from her job because of a mental illness disability.
An appointed Clark County district judge was trailing close behind her challenger in preliminary election results released Wednesday evening.
A District Court judge denied a request to keep polling places open after voting machine printers ran out of paper at eight polling places.
Nevada on Thursday reported 386 new coronavirus cases and five additional deaths, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The state on Friday reported 2,866 new coronavirus cases and 55 additional fatalities, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Nevada on Tuesday recorded 40 coronavirus deaths —the second-highest one-day toll since the start of the pandemic, according to state data.
Nevada reported an additional 480 cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, along with 13 new deaths, according to state data.
State officials have temporarily stopped the Department of Corrections from using a victims’ bill of rights law to take up to 80 percent of money sent by families to some prisoners.