Students get the day off from school for Nevada Day on the last Friday in October instead of Nevada’s actual day of statehood, Oct. 31 (Halloween). But why?
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The Moapa Educational Support Center, located on the reservation of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, has been working to raise awareness and bring more students and teachers to the building.
Rising temperatures have sapped more than 10 trillion gallons of water from the Colorado River over the last two decades, a recent study shows.
Some public charter schools in the Las Vegas Valley are using additional state money to increase pay for their employees by as much as 20 percent.
Henderson City Council voted to redraw its wards along with the first plan from staff, despite objections from Ward 3 Councilwoman Carrie Cox.
Children must now be 5 years old by Aug. 1 to attend kindergarten in Nevada’s public schools.
The two proposals show that “the tools available to the federal government are very blunt,” said John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Since the 1980s, Southern Nevada has been banking its unused Colorado River water, storing hundreds of billions of gallons away underground and in Lake Mead.
Years after officials shut down a Nye County boarding school, another facility on the same property is facing allegations that have led to fines and criminal charges.
Nevada gets less than a 2 percent cut from the Colorado River’s waters, but the state actually uses far more water than that each year.