Eighty-six veteran Washoe County employees, many of whom run services ranging from animal control to finances, have accepted buyouts to retire early.
County Manager Katy Simon told the Reno Gazette-Journal that their positions are being eliminated, and more staff cuts are looming to help deal with an estimated $6.8 million budget shortfall.
She said by the end of December, another 19 employees will be laid off .
The county introduced a plan that would impose a $1 monthly surcharge on every telephone line to help pay for 911 infrastructure improvements.
The complaint claims a downtown casino and railroad company’s failure to repair a hole in a fence allowed a California man to crawl through and be hit by a train.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is facing a backlash from governments around the world after a recent surge in sexualized images of women and children generated without consent by the artificial intelligence-powered tool.
Nvidia, AMD and Intel all had important chip and AI platform announcements on the first day of CES 2026, but all audiences wanted to see more of was Star Wars and Jensen Huang’s little robot buddies.
Protections for a disappearing, funny-looking bird species are causing the BLM to take a second look at a cross-Nevada transmission line that is costing ratepayers billions.
The Department of Homeland Security had accused the global Hilton hotel chain of a “coordinated” effort to refuse service to its employees.
Las Vegas finished 2025 with more than 5 inches of rain, boosted by the Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve storms.
A bipartisan bill aims to help Nevada nonprofits like the YMCA expand affordable child care access and reduce long waitlists for working families.
The 2026 election will be a crowded field as all District and Family Court seats will be on the ballot in Clark County.
Officials said the overhaul to the federal vaccine schedule won’t result in any families losing access or insurance coverage for vaccines, but medical experts slammed the move.
