The Winnemucca Grammar School (WGS) just finished the third season with WGS Lego robotics competition teams. The two teams are part of the FIRST and FIRST Nevada organizations. This year’s teams included 6-8 fourth graders who were all new to the FIRST Lego League (FLL). These students were chosen based on letters of interest they submitted in third grade.
CARSON CITY — In October of 1980, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office (NCSO) Deputies located the remains of an unknown male adult approximately one mile east of US95 and 60 miles south of Tonopah, Nevada near a dirt road.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada State Treasurer’s Office announced that it is accepting applications for the 2024 Kenny C. Guinn Memorial Scholarship, which awards $5,000 scholarships to four college students across Nevada who are working towards becoming an educator.
On Sunday, Feb. 25, at approximately 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time, a Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP) Trooper was on routine patrol on US-93 near mile marker 93 in White Pine County.
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Lunches are served each weekday at noon and soup and croutons is served at 11 a.m. the Pleasant Senior Center, 1480 Lay Street. Lunches are open to the public. Suggested minimum donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Visitors must be 16 years or older. Their meal is $10. Hot soup at croutons served daily with meal. Low-fat milk available daily. Safety of food after it has been served & taken from the center is the responsibility of the consumer. The following is the menu for March 7-13..
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Medications like buprenorphine and naltrexone have been proven to reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms in people with opioid use disorder. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Pharmacists in Nevada will soon be able to prescribe medications designed to help opioid addiction. The regulation, R059-23, was approved Tuesday by the Legislative Commission, a 11-member bipartisan board of legislators that gives final stamps of approval on regulations established by executive branch agencies and boards. State Sen. Lisa Krasner, R-Reno, cast the only vote in opposition.
What do a state lawmaker, federal land use manager, wildlife advocate, biologist, rancher and animal activist have in common? Not much, it turns out, when it comes to agreeing on how to address Nevada’s swelling wild horse population. There are about 90,000 wild horses nationwide. More than half — about 50,000 — are in Nevada. The state can sustain a population of around 20,000, according to public land use managers.
Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar publicly apologized Thursday morning for a highly publicized computer glitch that led to online voting records reflecting people participated in the presidential primary when they didn’t, and said that an in-the-works centralized voter registration system would prevent such errors in the future. Aguilar reiterated in a press release Thursday that the issue did not affect vote tabulation during the state’s recent presidential primary, and there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the state.
An extended economic hangover caused by high electric and natural gas bills for Nevada ratepayers will begin to subside in April, as the exorbitant cost of natural gas in 2022 and early 2023, coupled with higher usage resulting from frigid temperatures that winter, fall off the 12-month rolling average used by NV Energy and Southwest Gas to calculate bills. The annualized decrease for Southwest Gas customers in Southern Nevada, scheduled to take effect in April, amounts to $105.5 million, or about 10% for a single-family home, and a reduction of $69.8 million or 12.4% for households in Northern Nevada.
At its apex from 1997 to 1999, student enrollment for the HCSD was at approximately 4,000 students; today, it is approximately 3,200 students, and with a pupil-centered funding plan, less students means less money for the district from the state to pay teachers, provide programming and more. At the regular meeting of the Humboldt County District (HCSD) School Board of Trustees on Feb. 27, the Board identified possible methods to recruit and retain teachers and address staffing based on student enrollment although no formal actions will be taken on any matter until more final budgeting is conducted.
A ballot measure to require and implement voter identification could now be up for a statewide vote this year after a Carson City judge rejected a legal challenge filed against it. In his Monday ruling, Judge William Maddox said the ballot initiative is constitutional because its description of effect (a 200-word summary of the measure included on signature forms) effectively conveys to voters what the petition does. The judge also said it does not contain an unfunded mandate — dismissing arguments the legal challenge levied against the petition.
The basic service charge of $16.50 paid monthly by NV Energy customers in Northern Nevada could increase to $44.40 if the utility has its way. The utility says the move is a means of reducing a $7.8 million subsidy paid by ratepayers who buy electricity from the utility, to the benefit of solar rooftop customers, who generate their own electricity for the most part, but remain on the power company’s grid.