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Sisolak staffer tests positive for COVID-19

A member of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s Carson City staff tested positive for COVID-19, sending all staffers in the office home to quarantine for a week pending tests of their own.

Nevada vows to fight DOE plan to store plutonium near Las Vegas

U.S. Department of Energy proposal to store up to a ton of weapons-grade plutonium at the Nevada National Security Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is condemned by state lawmakers.

 
Paul Laxalt, former Nevada governor, senator, dies at 96

The son of Basque immigrants who settled in Carson City early in the 1900s, Laxalt served as governor from 1967 to 1971, was a U.S. senator from 1974 to 1986 and supported establishment of Nevada’s first community colleges and its first medical school.