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A new variant of the bird flu has been reported in a Churchill County dairy, marking the first time the variant — reported in wild birds and other species — has been detected in cows anywhere in the country. “This is a significant finding,” said Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) Director J.J. Goicoechea. “These viruses continue to mutate.” Bird flu is a highly contagious virus that can lead to illness in livestock and death in poultry. The slaughter of millions of sick and possibly infected chickens has led to skyrocketing egg prices nationwide. Dairies have seen lesser effects, and pasteurized milk and cheese products are unaffected.
More than a decade after Nevada lawmakers passed a bill to remove coal from NV Energy’s quiver, the state’s last utility-owned coal plant will cease running, with operations set to end later this year. But the North Valmy Generating Station, located near Battle Mountain, isn’t being retired, as NV Energy once said it was. Instead, the state’s largest electric utility is repowering Valmy to burn natural gas. The conversion, the utility touted, would reduce the plant’s emissions by roughly 50 percent.
To build a program like the Lowry High School girls basketball team has over the past couple of decades, it all starts at the beginning as young girls dreaming of playing in the blue and gold uniforms and progresses through the ranks from there. The Lady Buckaroos have won four state championships, since 2014, including three straight titles in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Lowry also has two runner-up finishes on its resume in that span as well. Since 2002, Lowry has played in 17 state tournaments
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Nevada state fire and police officers may see their take-home pay decrease 4% later this year after an approved employee retirement contribution rate hike goes into effect. The Nevada Police Union in an open letter released Tuesday urged state legislators to take actions to offset the scheduled rate hike. That could include providing employees with cost-of-living adjustments, offering one-time retention bonuses, delaying or rejecting the rate hike, or funding the retirement system directly.
On the night of Gov. Joe Lombardo’s State of the State address last month, Democratic legislative leaders accused the Republican governor of submitting a budget with a $335 million structural deficit. Three weeks later (and two weeks after the governor’s office conceded the shortfall existed), the deficit has been eliminated after the governor’s office made changes to how some programs were funded and incorporated certain items that were left out of original revenue projections.
Over the last eight years, Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have remade the federal judiciary. The U.S. Senate approved 234 of Trump’s judicial picks in his first term, and 235 Biden nominees. Each is responsible for the appointments of just over a quarter of the entire federal judiciary. But Nevada has been largely left out of either president’s effort to reshape the judiciary. Between the two presidents, only three judges whose chambers are in Nevada, of nine total, were appointed to the federal bench — and all replaced judges appointed by a president of the same party.
FALLON — With just six wrestlers at the NIAA State Wrestling Championships this past weekend at the Rafter 3C Arena in Fallon, most didn’t give Lowry High School much of a chance to do anything team wise. All the Monday-morning quarterbacks were wrong, as Pete Bengochea captured his first state title at 106 pounds and senior Jhett Harber bruised his way to the top spot at 175 pounds, his third state title overall. More importantly, four of the other five Buckaroo wrestlers, finished in the top four, giving Lowry the runner-up spot with 87 points.
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