The Nevada Clean Energy Fund has been awarded $156 million in federal money for statewide solar projects, the nonprofit group announced Monday. The five-year grant will fund a combined several thousand solar installations on single-family homes and affordable housing developments, as well as fund community solar projects and education and workforce development, according to CEO Kirsten Stasio.
Nevada’s general fund revenue is 5% higher so far in fiscal year 2024 than earlier forecasts from the state’s Economic Forum, Legislative fiscal analyst Michael Nakamoto told legislators Monday.
Though more than 116,000 families in Nevada qualify for a federal program offering food, nutrition support and education to pregnant and postpartum women, toddlers and infants from low-income households, only about half of those families receive those benefits, state health officials told lawmakers earlier this month.
Earlier this month, a congressional subcommittee met to discuss spent nuclear fuel and where to store it — setting off alarms for opponents of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the federal site in Nye County designated to store the nation’s high-level nuclear waste that has nonetheless sat vacant for decades due to intense regional opposition.
One month after Nevada DMV officials said that the long-awaited project to upgrade the agency’s antiquated computer systems was on track and within budget, the agency now says the plan will likely take three more fiscal years and cost $300 million more than originally anticipated.
A Reno-based company, Solidus Resources, LLC, has applied to change the usage of water rights it owns in Pershing County from “irrigation” to “mining.” The proposed change has alarmed some residents, including DJ (Dan) Myers. The Pershing County Commissioners and others are protesting all 18 of their applications and plans on discussing the matter further at its next meeting May 15. Myers’ ties to Nevada go way back. The walls of "The Ghost Town Saloon" in Midas display photos of his grandfather hauling the first ball mill to Coeur Rochester with a 20-mule team.
Spring is here and hot air balloons will soon be too! The 2024 Winnemucca Balloon Festival is taking place May 17 to 19 with multiple opportunities to see some balloons on the ground and in the air. This year’s theme, Magic in the Sky, was inspired by a local student’s imagination.
Earlier in April, Humboldt County School District (HCSD) Superintendent of 13 years, Dr. Dave Jensen, announced that he will be retiring in June of 2025 during a regular meeting of the Humboldt County School Board of Trustees, but the Board has already appointed a new superintendent at their meeting on April 23 (Trustee Lori Woodland was present online).
Updates by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to its oil and gas leasing rule for public lands will likely discourage the industry from continuing to operate in states like Nevada where exploration rarely turns up a substantial oil deposit, according to state officials. With last month’s updates — the first comprehensive overhaul of the rule since 1988 and the first update to some components of it in more than a century — oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on public lands, a move praised by conservation groups but one Nevada officials say could eliminate several million dollars per year from state and county coffers.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor Tuesday announced a final rule that means millions of salaried workers who are employed in the executive, administrative or professional industries will become eligible for overtime pay.
With highly fractured, permeable ground, the Great Basin’s geology makes it one of the most geothermally rich areas in the world. Hot fluid rises easily toward the surface, ideal for driving power plants, and present-day Nevada is the second-largest producer of geothermal energy in the nation behind California. Tapping into hot fluids below the ground to spin turbines in power plants that generate electricity and boasting a lower carbon footprint than many other power sources, geothermal accounts for about 9 percent of energy generated in Nevada. But that number could be much higher, scientists say. The Silver State could produce about 30 gigawatts (GW) of geothermal power — about 30 times more than it does now.
Almost a year after major pharmacy chains began waffling at the prospect of filling mifepristone prescriptions, Walgreens and CVS began dispensing the abortion pill in Nevada during the last few weeks. The decision comes after a concentrated push by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), who called on the chains to follow through with Food & Drug Administration (FDA) guidance updates finalized in 2023 allowing mifepristone to be dispensed and sold at pharmacies.
The Bureau of Land Management will publish a final rule soon allowing the nation’s public lands to be leased for environmental protection, a Thursday news release from the Interior Department said. The rule, which both proponents and detractors say marks a shift in the agency’s focus toward conservation, directs land managers at the agency to identify landscapes in need of restoration and to create plans to fill those needs.
Editor’s note: The treatments are counts from his mother. Prior to the last home baseball games of the year, 16-year-old Joesph Esquibel was honored by the Lowry High School baseball team to throw out the first pitch. With his family behind him, Esquibel threw a strike down the middle of the plate. Esquibel is the middle child of seven and has been fighting for his life for over 18 months, after receiving his official diagnosis of high risk (stage 4) neuroblastoma in October of 2022.
ALAMO — The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) is seeking the public’s help in identifying two individuals responsible for illegally releasing approximately 25 turkeys onto the Key Pittman Wildlife Management Area on April 9, 2024.
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