The Department of Interior announced a $700 million investment in water conservation projects in the Lower Colorado River Basin.
Politics and Government
The state Supreme Court erred in upholding a ruling to award $48 million to the owner of the defunct Badlands golf course, attorneys for Clark County argue.
It’s an ordinance some Las Vegas City Council members acknowledged would be nearly impossible to enforce.
An appeals court has halted the case against Donald Trump and others while it reviews a lower court judge’s ruling allowing Fani Willis to remain on the case.
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.
Clark County reported 715 new coronavirus cases and 31 deaths, as cases continued to drop and Gov. Steve Sisolak planned a COVID-19 news conference for Thursday.
The 796 new coronavirus cases added in updated data from the Southern Nevada Health District was the most since the district reported 824 new cases on Sept. 11.
The face mask mandate is again in force across Nevada, with Esmeralda County ordered to mask up again as of Friday.
This “variant of interest” has a unique mutation that may make it resistant to the protection offered by vaccine and past infection.
The state reported 1,115 new cases and 44 deaths, bringing official totals posted by the Department of Health and Human Services to 400,349 cases and 6,681 deaths.
In his most forceful pandemic actions and words, President Joe Biden on Thursday announced sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans.
Both figures are the highest in a single report since the state stopped tallying numbers over the weekend in mid-April.
Nevada on Friday reported 813 new coronavirus cases and 13 additional deaths over the preceding day, capping a week in which major disease metrics in the state continued to rise and reached levels not seen since February.
The Southern Nevada Health District has announced it is expanding the hours for vaccine appointments at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
He harshly criticizes Southern Nevada vaccine practices that allowed young employees of local governmental agencies to get COVID-19 vaccinations ahead of older Nevadans.