On Sunday, July 28, at approximately 1 p.m., Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP) Troopers responded to a crash on Interstate 80 (IR80) near mile marker 135 in Pershing County. This location is 30 miles east of Lovelock.
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Lake Tahoe’s clarity declined more than 3 feet between 2022 and 2023, according to a report released today by the U.C. Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, which has measured the lake’s clarity since 1968.
RENO, NV – In June 2024, the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBSF) announced the allocation of $9.4 million in affordable housing grants to developers across Nevada, addressing the state’s critical shortage of affordable housing. Among the recipients, Great Basin Federal Credit Union received its first Affordable Housing Program (AHP) award and has partnered with the American Covenant Senior Housing Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to providing safe, affordable, and sustainable housing for seniors, families, veterans, and the homeless.
CARSON CITY, Nev. – The Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development has approved five companies that will receive $66,606,731 in tax abatements. In return, these companies are projected to create 152 jobs in the next two years at an average hourly wage of $29.72. That figure is expected to rise to 298 jobs in five years. Additionally, these companies will make a capital equipment investment of $1,039,838,428 and generate $308,224,623 in new tax revenues over the 10-year abatement period.
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) introduced a lands bill for Pershing County on Tuesday, that would privatize public land for economic development — including mining — while adding conservation protections to other parcels in the area. Like past Nevada lands bills, it has support from a wide coalition of interest groups, from local officials to the Nevada Mining Association to Friends of Nevada Wilderness — with opposition from some environmentalists, including the Center for Biological Diversity.
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.
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WINNEMUCCA— Nevada Outdoor School has received $20,000 from Yamaha Outdoor Access Initiative to support their efforts to promote safe and responsible OHV recreation around Nevada especially among youth as part of the Nevada OHV Youth Helmet Program.
WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee will move forward with a virtual nomination vote for its presidential candidate as soon as Aug. 1, after its Rules Committee approved the process on Wednesday. The DNC has been moving forward with plans to hold a virtual nomination roll call since well before President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place.
Vast seas of sagebrush spreading over flat, sunbaked earth beckon to developers looking to capitalize on the rush for renewable energy across the West. Conservationists rally around those same untouched parcels, often home to desert tortoise, bi-state sage grouse and other threatened species. The developers and conservationists repeatedly butt heads on the same issue — where should clean energy infrastructure be built?
During a roughly one-month span last year, the director of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) received three reports about Deputy Director Kristina Shea. In late September, a union representative sent a letter to Director James Dzurenda alleging Shea had retaliated against workers who questioned her and made employees fearful of losing their jobs by hiring contractors, among many other concerns.
Nevada counties have mailed notices to nearly 157,000 people warning them their voter registration is scheduled to be set to inactive unless they take action, the secretary of state’s office announced Tuesday. The effort is part of routine voter roll maintenance, the process of which is set in Nevada Revised Statute and federal law through the National Voter Registration Act. A total of 156,996 NVRA notices were sent by Nevada’s 17 counties, according to the secretary of state’s office. That’s equivalent to around 7.8% of all active voters statewide.
Lander County Court Docket for 7-31-2024