Assembly Bill 313 would require the backfilling of open pit mines once mining companies are done extracting ore and other minerals from the site.
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The bill was one of three election-related measures approved by a Senate committee Tuesday, ahead of a Friday deadline.
If approved, the legislation would make Nevada the first state to give a local water agency permanent say over how much water residents can use.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., announced on Twitter she tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday afternoon. She is experiencing mild symptoms.
Former Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak will join the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics as a Pritzker fellow, joining other politicians who lost their recent re-elections.
Republican Joe Lombardo will become Nevada’s next governor, making the leap from county sheriff to the state’s top executive office after unseating first-term Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak by a razor-thin margin.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act with no Republican support, and the House is scheduled to vote on it Friday.
In Nevada and nationwide, 988 will replace the 10-digit suicide and mental health hotline number, an early step in the state’s efforts to bolster response to mental-health crises.
Nevada law allows abortion 24 weeks into pregnancy, but pro-life groups are mulling some restrictions on the practice short of an outright ban.
The outage is formally known as a public safety outage management event, or PSOM, and it is expected to start at noon Sunday and continue until 9 a.m. Monday.