Seven jails are now fully in compliance with a law that requires the facilities create a process for inmates to vote while in jail.
Politics and Government
Workers in Nevada will see a bump in the state’s minimum wage this summer.
Imprisoned for a fatal Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs has been transferred to Northern Nevada, where he’s in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the case, set sentencing for July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
The first pieces of the state’s plan to vastly expand testing for the disease caused by the new coronavirus are expected as soon as Friday.
The Nevada National Guard distributed nearly a million pieces of personal protective equipment to 22 Southern Nevada nursing and assisted living facilities this week.
Nevada has recorded 111 more COVID-19 cases and three more deaths from the disease in nursing homes, assisted living centers and other institutions since it unveiled a new tracking tool on Monday.
The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday approved more than $254,000 in emergency services purchases for the quarantine facility for the homeless at Cashman Center.
The Nevada National Guard’s deployment in response to the state’s coronavirus crisis expanded sharply Tuesday and will now be the largest state activation in its history.
The space at existing facilities will be augmented by new makeshift isolation wards being built at the Southern Nevada Health District headquarters and at Cashman Center.