It will take tens of millions of dollars to repair and improve the dam over the next 10 years, officials estimate.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign said it had enough signatures to appear on Nevada’s ballot, but the petition didn’t name a vice president, as state law requires.
A nonprofit will have grants terminated after state officials say it failed to pay over $400,000 to vendors despite the state reimbursing it for those payments.
Nevada’s Democrats and Republicans don’t see eye-to-eye on how to make housing more affordable.
A lawsuit by an environmental group seeks to force the Bureau of Land Management to develop plans to preserve Gold Butte and Basin and Range national monuments.
CARSON CITY — Three-quarters of the way through the 2009 Nevada Legislature, lobbyists have spent $124,858 on food and drinks at dinners, receptions and other events held to promote their clients’ interests.
CARSON CITY — After months of discussion of everything but, the Legislature finally started talking taxes Thursday.
The higher education system’s Board of Regents could have raised tuition Thursday, but it did not.
CARSON CITY — A decision on whether to set up procedures for authorizing toll roads in Nevada won’t come until just before a deadline today when the bill must pass, or it automatically dies for the remainder of the 2009 Legislature.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance a stripped-down version of a bill that would have allowed authorities to conduct secret searches on electronic communications and seize funds on prepaid debit cards without a warrant.
CARSON CITY — A construction defect bill sought by Nevada’s powerful but struggling construction industry and a measure to loosen caps on medical malpractice awards have died in key legislative committees.
CARSON CITY — The Public Employees Retirement System bases its investment decisions on securing the best financial return for its members and cannot stop investing in companies doing business with Iranian oil firms, legislators were told Thursday.
CARSON CITY — Despite what you may be hearing from Nevada legislators, raising taxes isn’t the solution to the state’s budget woes, according to a radio ad a conservative group is set to begin airing statewide today.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel voted unanimously Wednesday for an Assembly-approved proposal allowing civil lawsuits when victims of childhood sex crimes learn there’s pornography depicting the crimes against them.
CARSON CITY — Legislative leaders working on a plan for more than $1 billion in new revenue from various sources were criticized Wednesday by Gov. Jim Gibbons for making “covert deals” behind closed doors to raise taxes.