Nevada’s Burning Man counter-culture festival has inspired spin-off events around the world that are now being studied by Swiss government anthropologists and sociologists.
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The Vegas Golden Knights’ improbable run to the Stanley Cup Final and the team’s impact on the community was the top local story in 2018, but it was hardly the only big news of the year.
Cash payments. Drinks and airfare. Government contracts. All ingredients of a good scandal. But in the case of Nevada’s State Public Charter School Authority, there’s more behind allegations of misconduct than meets the eye.
The usual happenings in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area carried on Saturday despite a partial government shutdown now expected to drag into Christmas.
The two amateur prospectors spied what they had come looking for— an abandoned mine shaft possibly hiding treasure within. But it wasn’t gold or silver the two sought in a rural Nevada forest. It was blue jeans from the long-ago days of the Comstock Lode.
The University of Nevada, Reno, has earned the designation as a top research institution along with UNLV, but was inexplicably left off the list published this week, officials said Friday.
Though Nevada’s infrastructure received a passing grade in a quadrennial report, there’s still more work to be done, say state officials.
Governor-elect Steve Sisolak and Attorney General-elect Aaron Ford announced Saturday that they plan to join other states in opposing a Texas federal judge’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.
Governor-elect Steve Sisolak’s transition team announced that Bradley Crowell, director of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and Tony Wasley, director of the Nevada Department of Wildlife, will remain in their current roles under the new administration.
David Singleton, who won more than $10,000 on the popular TV game show in 2006, now helps students navigate the Nevada System of Higher Education when disputes over transfer of credits arise.