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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WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of the Trump administration's push to expand U.S. energy production, federal officials will review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments created under previous presidents to protect unique landscapes and cultural resources. The review — laid out in a Monday order from new Interior Secretary Doug Burgum — is raising alarms among conservation groups concerned that President Donald Trump will shrink or eliminate monuments established by his predecessors, including Democrat Joe Biden. Burgum gave agency officials until Feb. 18 to submit plans on how to comply with his order.
One of the nearly three dozen executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on the day of his inauguration last month is designed to halt the development of wind turbines. On Trump’s behalf and as part of carrying out that order, the Department of Interior’s acting secretary issued an order the same day to all Interior’s bureaus and departments temporarily suspending their authority “to take any of the following actions…” One of the paused actions listed in the order was approving any “plans of operation, or to amend existing plans of operation under the General Mining Law of 1872.”
SPARKS — The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest has been selected to provide the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree in 2025. This will mark the first time the United States Forest Service will harvest the tree from the Humboldt-Toiyabe and the state of Nevada. “Nevada’s rugged, wide-open landscapes are a hallmark of our culture and a cornerstone of our economy,” said Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo. “In the spirit of shared stewardship, the state of Nevada looks forward to partnering with the U.S. Forest Service to provide the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree and showcase what’s special about the Silver State.”
A silver pickup towing a white horse trailer rumbled along Interstate 80 before turning north on State Route 447 toward Gerlach. Without stopping in town, it bumps its way down rough dirt roads past some of Northern Nevada’s most fantastical and imposing formations — the Black Rock Desert, Fly Geyser, the Calico Mountains, King Lear Peak. Nearly two hours later at the edge of the Black Rock Desert, the trailer hooked a sharp left onto an even more rugged road leading into Box Canyon. As the slopes looming over the canyon grew steeper and closer together, the trailer came to a stop.