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Foes line up against Nevada charter school moratorium bill

Even before it has received its first hearing in Carson City, the measure barring authorizing agencies from granting applications for new charter contracts until Jan. 1, 2021 is running into strong political headwinds.

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Donation reopens Death Valley visitors center during shutdown

Thanks to a donation by the Death Valley Natural History Association, the Furnace Creek Visitor Center has reopened despite the partial federal government shutdown, now in its second week.

BLM removes Nevada sage grouse habitat from oil, gas lease auction

Environmentalists are celebrating a court ruling that removed more than a million acres of federal land in Western states from an upcoming oil and gas auction in greater sage grouse habitat, including about 330,000 acres in Nevada.

Lawsuit aims to stop BLM from removing Lincoln County wild horses

Wild horse advocates and conservationists are suing to stop the Bureau of Land Management from “zeroing out” herds across eastern Lincoln County after the agency said the area has too little water and forage to sustain healthy herds.

Proposal would ease penalties under new Nevada opioid law

Instead of the strict rules contained in draft regulations made public in January, the consequences for violations of the law would be left to the state medical board’s discretion, based on a prescriber’s “good faith attempts at compliance.”

Interior unveils plans to roll back sage grouse protections

The Interior Department released revised planning documents Wednesday formalizing the Trump administration’s push to relax protections for the greater sage grouse in Nevada and 10 other states.

New space-age nuclear reactor passes Nevada test

Reasearchers announced Wednesday that the Kilopower fission reactor performed better than expected during a 28-hour, full-power test completed on March 21 inside a vacuum chamber at the Nevada National Security Site.