Nevada elections officials delivered on promises of faster election returns Tuesday, with several major races already called Tuesday night.
Politics and Government
Several judicial races are expected to move forward to a general election, according to unofficial results from Tuesday’s election night.
Races for Clark County School Board will likely advance to the general election, preliminary election results show.
Preliminary primary election results showed Republican candidate April Becker and Democrat Shannon Bilbray-Alexrod ahead in their respective primaries.
The Associated Press calls the GOP primary in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District for Drew Johnson.
A bill would create a new program to use satellite imagery to estimate how much water is lost to evapotranspiration from crops.
“Disastrous conditions have reshaped Lake Mead National Recreation Area’s one and a half million acres of incredible landscapes and slowly depleted the largest reservoir in the United States,” the senators wrote in a letter to the National Park Service.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority is evaluating whether changes need to be made to its lowest intake straw in order to protect water quality as Lake Mead continues to shrink.
Southern Nevada Water Authority would have the authority to impose water use restrictions on the biggest users under a bill heard by the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
Two competing proposals to achieve federally mandated cuts to Colorado River water use are on the table, but agreement between states has remained elusive.