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Training ‘a joke’ for state prison officers

Officers at Southern Desert Correctional Center can relate to the challenges of watching over hundreds of inmates with insufficient staffing and equipment.

PUC wants Switch to pay $27.7M ‘exit fee’ to leave Nevada Power

Staff with the Nevada Public Utilities Commission is recommending that the data storage company Switch pay a $27.7 million “exit fee” to leave Nevada Power and secure its own electricity on the wholesale market.

Interior secretary: No protection needed for bi-state greater sage grouse

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the bi-state population of greater sage grouse found along the California-Nevada border does not require the protection of the Endangered Species Act, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced Tuesday.

Common Core testing resumes; problems persist

Nevada schools on Monday resumed statewide testing of students in grades three to eight following computer server crashes that interrupted the process last week. About 27,000 students started testing without interruption on Monday morning, according to the Nevada Department of Education, though the system later generated error messages at some schools across the state.

Pop was machinery, not gunfire, police say

What Las Vegas police initially thought was gunfire Monday in the east valley turned out to be a pop from a piece of machinery, the agency said.

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Bill would change Nevada’s anti-Slapp law

A bill being sought in the Legislature by Wynn Resorts that critics argue would substantially weaken Nevada’s anti-SLAPP statute flew through the state Senate earlier this month and is now awaiting a hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

Wrong-way crash kills 2 near Snow Mountain

A wrong-way crash killed two people on U.S Highway 95 near Snow Mountain and closed the freeway early Sunday evening, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.

Reid eye injury gives rise to rumor and legend

To most people it seemed curious but straightforward enough when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada said he suffered a serious facial injury while exercising at his Henderson home on New Year’s Day.

Washington Digest: Congress completes Medicare payment overhaul

Congress completed work last week on a bill that overhauls the way Medicare pays doctors, ending a long practice of short-term fixes that was threatening medical services to seniors.

Further Future festival scrambles for new location

The website for the inaugural Further Future festival describes it as “a shared experience that’s beyond our future.” Think Burning Man, only smaller and more exclusive.

Plenty of 2016 races to draw out Hispanic voters in Nevada

There will be plenty of reasons for Nevada Latinos to turn out in record numbers for the 2016 election, say insiders who predict Hispanics will account for 20 percent of the state’s electorate, or one out of every five votes cast in the West’s most competitive battleground state.

Downtown Project breaks through with apartment building

For the past two years, Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project has absorbed criticism for developing bars, restaurants and tech startups — but no places to live in downtown Las Vegas. No more.

Wall recognizes Nevada Guard members who served in Gulf wars

The names of the Nevada National Guard soldiers and airmen who have served in combat operations in the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom were unveiled Friday on 43 plaques stretching across an auditorium wall at the Office of the Adjutant General.

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