The state Health and Human Services Department has announced that it has raised the rate to recruit technicians needed for a new Medicaid-sponsored autism program to $31.31 per hour, up from an initial proposal of $29.61 per hour.
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It seemed like a simple rule: Don’t get involved in a political campaign while serving on Nevada’s Ethics Commission. After all, legislators created the commission as the main safeguard against misconduct by candidates and elected officials. To run for office while policing others would seem to be a clear conflict of interest.
In November 2014, Arkansas voters approved a ballot measure that, among other reforms, barred the state’s elected officials from accepting lobbyists’ gifts. But that hasn’t stopped influence peddlers from continuing to provide meals to lawmakers at the luxurious Capital Hotel or in top Little Rock eateries like the Brave New Restaurant; the prohibition does not apply to “food or drink available at a planned activity to which a specific governmental body is invited,” so lobbyists can buy meals so long as they invite an entire legislative committee.
The 24th Annual Southern Paiute Veterans Pow-Wow in Moapa on Saturday and Sunday featured dancers, drumming exhibitions and colorful costumes.
After months of uncomfortable silence, Mallory Levins finally mustered the courage to speak up: Her colleague at the Nevada System of Higher Education, she told her bosses, had made a habit of masturbating at work while she was forced to listen.
Italian greyhound dog breeder George Papania was convicted of two felony animal cruelty charges in Pahrump on Thursday.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt has asked a Carson City judge to dismiss a second lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new education savings accounts, widely considered to be the most aggressive school-choice program in the country.
Chemists who perform blood tests used to detect alcohol or drugs in administrative or preliminary legal proceedings must be qualified as an “expert” by a Nevada court before their findings can be submitted through a written affidavit or declaration, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
A proposed wind farm near Searchlight has been blown back to square one after a federal judge in Las Vegas tossed out Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service project approvals.
The Laughlin VA Health Clinic would be renamed under legislation introduced in Congress Thursday to honor the late Jesse Dean, a Navy veteran and prominent member of American Legion Post 60.
Nevada counties will receive a little something extra from the federal government to compensate them for federal lands that don’t generate tax revenue.
CARSON CITY — Researchers at Nevada’s medical school and University Medical Center in Las Vegas will share $8 million for projects and programs aimed at improving women’s health, thanks to a 2014 settlement with a major drug company, the attorney general’s office announced Wednesday.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave final approval Tuesday to a $400,000 payment from Nevada to settle a lawsuit over the state’s practice of busing indigent mental patients to the city in years past.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 89 “deportable” people last week in Nevada, according to a news release.
The death of a toddler has resulted in the arrest of his mother and her boyfriend in northwest Arizona.