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The Southern Nevada Health District board accepted the resignation of the district’s chief health officer Thursday and appointed a temporary replacement.
Federal officials have approved a solar plant on an Indian reservation outside Las Vegas, marking the nation’s first commercial-grade solar energy project on tribal land and new territory for the Obama administration’s renewable energy agenda.
For 26 years, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce has offered health insurance and term life insurance plans to members with no changes in its rate structure. But now the business association wants to reach out to younger business people and has adjusted rates to lower costs for those aged 20 to 39. Some longtime customers are ready to bail.
A former Nevada prison inmate filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging she was denied proper medical attention and “placed at serious risk of substantial harm” when guards shackled her ankles during an ambulance ride in October to give birth to her baby.