ELKO — Repaving at the Road’s End parking area at the end of Lamoille Canyon Road, Forest Service Road 660, is scheduled to begin on July 7. The parking lot, trailhead, and upper part of the road will be closed for approximately 30 days.
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WINNEMUCCA — The Bureau of Land Management is temporarily closing a portion of the Black Rock Desert playa for the annual Burning Man event from July 24 through Oct. 5. The goal is to protect public resources, improve public safety, and enable BLM law enforcement to support state and local law enforcement.
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Southwest Gas customers can expect to see significant decreases in their bills beginning next month. The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada voted Monday to approve the utility’s request for a significant decrease in its deferred energy rate, an accounting method used by the utility to adjust for changes in the price of natural gas. The change will go into effect on July 1 and is expected to lower the average gas bill in Southern Nevada by more than $10 a month, and by more than $18 a month in Northern Nevada, according to PUC Hearing Officer Sam Crano.
If you’ve ever driven through an area ravaged by wildfire, you’ve likely noticed signs on fences and driveways thanking firefighters. Performing critical services, firefighters are among the most celebrated of our public servants. So plans to alter the way America battles wildfires — through the proposed creation of a $3.7 billion U.S. Wildland Fire Service at the Department of Interior — has raised some eyebrows. Some groups, such as the Center for Western Priorities, called the move a “performative gesture that will cause chaos.”
Entering Nevada’s 2025 legislative session, Gov. Joe Lombardo’s administration had big plans to reform the state’s occupational licensing boards. In January, Lombardo said in his State of the State address that the system should be “smart, lean and productive.” The Department of Business and Industry (B&I) also released a report — conducted at the behest of the Republican governor — calling for significant reforms to the system, including merging and consolidating many of the boards, which oversee licensing for about a quarter of the state’s workforce. Five months later, there’s nothing to show for it. Several proposals, including a comprehensive reform package brought by B&I and other last-minute deals, failed to garner enough legislative support before the session ended on June 2.
For years, educators have sounded alarm bells that per-pupil funding for Nevada schools trails far behind the national average of about $17,000 per student. Without upping the state’s funding by at least a third, advocacy groups warned that schools — which rank near the bottom nationwide — could risk even more overcrowding and teacher shortages.
WINNEMUCCA — Due to increasing fire danger, Stage 1 Fire Restrictions are in effect in central and northwestern Nevada, as of July 1. Restrictions apply to public lands and unincorporated private lands.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules. Lee, a Utah Republican, has proposed selling millions of acres (8.300 square kilometers) of public lands in the West to states or other entities for use as housing or infrastructure. The plan would revive a longtime ambition of Western conservatives to cede lands to local control after a similar proposal failed in the House earlier this year.
Cattle rancher Edward Bartell waited patiently to take pictures of Lithium Nevada pumping water from a well the mining company had recently lost the right to use. “I needed to make sure I caught them pumping and had photographs of them pumping, so I could prove that they were illegally using water,” said Bartell, who holds senior water rights in Thacker Pass. His photos confirmed what the Nevada Division of Water Resources already suspected during an earlier field investigation. Lithium Nevada was, without a permit and despite a court order to halt, still pumping water from a contested well.
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars in transportation funds from states that don’t agree to participate in some immigration enforcement actions. Twenty states sued after they said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened to cut off funding to states that refused to comply with President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. barred federal transportation officials from carrying out that threat before the lawsuit is fully resolved.
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