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Nevada OSHA fines Summerlin Hospital in fatal TB outbreak

The Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Summerlin Hospital Medical Center for eight violations linked to a fatal tuberculosis outbreak last year.

Bundy vs. BLM: Interest in cattle dispute widens

The Bureau of Land Management quietly dismantled its so-called “First Amendment areas” in northeastern Clark County on Thursday, as the fight over Cliven Bundy’s cattle widened into a national debate about states’ rights and federal land-use policy.

Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital gets green light from feds

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has found Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services’ Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in compliance with Medicare conditions of participation and federal requirements for emergency room obligations.

Wanted: 2,000 new CCSD teachers

The Clark County School District plans to hire 2,000 new teachers for next school year, rivaling the hiring effort for this school year which added 2,100 teachers and marked the district’s most intensive hiring effort since the enrollment boom days of 2005.

Feds seek mental evaluation for doctor in drug sting

For Dr. Vinay Bararia, it has been one fight after another with the government since his March 2012 arrest for unlawfully selling painkillers. Bararia, 43, caught in an undercover sting by federal drug agents in a hospital parking lot, pleaded guilty in December to one count of distributing a controlled substance. But he’s still fighting with the government — this time over his sentencing.

Longtime Nevada Assembly Speaker Joe Dini dies at age 85

Former Assembly Speaker Joe Dini of Yerington, who presided over the Assembly for a record eight terms in a career that began in 1967, died Thursday. He was 85.

Hall of Fame coach Jerry Tarkanian remains hospitalized

Legendary UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian was in stable condition Thursday afternoon after being admitted to Valley Hospital late the night before. Doctors still are trying to determine what caused the 83-year-old coach to take ill.