This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would provide $100 million in grants to help local governments set up a new permanent federal nutrition program to help families buy groceries for their children during the summer. Nevada is on track to distribute the $120 grocery benefit for each eligible school-aged child in mid-September as part of the new summer nutrition assistance program, known as Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer. The program was created by Congress in 2022.
Nevada ranks close to dead last in women’s health and reproductive care across all U.S. states and the District of Columbia, a new report shows. The report by the Commonwealth Fund, a foundation working to improve the quality and access of the United States health-care system, is part of a series examining state health system performance and used 32 criteria to evaluate each state based on health care access, affordability, quality of care and health outcomes for women in the U.S. This is the first time the group has created a scorecard for women’s health and reproductive care.
An organization providing legal services to those in need has become the first group of its kind in Nevada to unionize in an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. Taylor Marie Bassell, staff attorney at Northern Nevada Legal Aid (NNLA), has been pushing to unionize the organization since March.
Nevada’s two Democratic senators rarely agree with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) — let alone former Republican President Donald Trump. But Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) signed onto a bill Thursday that Cruz proposed to end federal taxation on tips, becoming the first Democrats to co-sponsor the policy in either chamber. It’s a move approved by the influential Culinary Workers Union Local 226, a longtime ally of the senators
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by former President Donald Trump’s campaign and its allies that sought to end Nevada’s practice of counting mail ballots received up to four days after Election Day. In a Wednesday ruling, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Miranda Du dismissed the case on the grounds that the plaintiffs — which also included the Republican National Committee (RNC), Nevada GOP and a Nevada voter — did not have standing to file the lawsuit, which alleged the state is violating federal election law by accepting and counting mail ballots postmarked by Election Day but received as many as four days after the election. The Associated Press first reported news of the dismissal Wednesday.
President Joe Biden called for a de-escalation in political rhetoric but kept up criticism of former President Donald Trump on Monday, in Biden’s first interview since a Saturday assassination attempt on Trump. Talking to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, Biden said he called the injured Trump on Saturday to convey his well wishes.
The Big Boy locomotive gathered steam heading across northern Nevada last week in an old-fashioned display of embellishing the railroad’s role in developing the West. Scores of people gathered in communities across the tri-county area to see world’s largest operating steam locomotive, the Union Pacific’s legendary Big Boy No. 4014 that was built in the early 1940s to conquer mountains.
The Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service has activated four Department of Defense C-130 aircraft including one from Nevada that are equipped with special equipment to assist with increased wildfire activity across the West.
Lithium, the “white gold” needed to power America’s clean-energy future, is becoming the most sought-after mineral in Nevada -- in a state that’s already the nation’s largest producer of gold -- said Amanda Hilton, the president of the Nevada Mining Association. “Lithium is certainly the talk of the state right now,” Hilton told host Sam Shad on Nevada Newsmakers recently.
Great Basin College (GBC) and Renown Health have announced a collaborative effort to introduce a pioneering Respiratory Therapy training program aimed at bolstering the rural healthcare workforce in northern Nevada. This initiative, made possible by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and the Health Resources and Services Administration, represents a significant milestone in healthcare education for the region.
CARSON CITY, Nev. – In partnership with the Nevada Division of Outdoor Recreation, the University of Nevada, Reno has developed two programs to address the increasing demand for skilled professionals in outdoor recreation. The new programs include a specialization in Sustainable Outdoor Recreation Management and a minor in Outdoor Adventure and Leadership (ODAL). The Sustainable Outdoor Recreation Management specialization is part of the Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, developed in the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology
When Reno resident Ky Plaskon’s air conditioning unit stopped working as a record-setting heat wave gripped both ends of Nevada this week, he inquired about a subsidized replacement through NV Energy’s PowerShift program. Funded by ratepayers, the program offers customers a rebate of $340 to $2,000 on energy-efficient units, depending on the type and size.
RENO — The weather forecast for the West continues to be scorching temperatures, low humidity and high winds – the perfect recipe for wildfire ignition and spread. Already this year, more than 23,400 wildfires have burned over 2,800,000 acres in the United States. More than 10,500 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents across the country.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential campaign said recently it gathered enough signatures for its petition to place him on the November general election ballot in Nevada, and county election officials will now undertake a signature verification process.
A handful of new laws enacted during the 2023 legislative session went into effect on July 1, including measures related to Medicaid coverage of mental health care and the interrogation of children during custody hearings. After July 1, aspects of only six remaining laws enacted by the 2023 Legislature will not have gone into effect. Portions of more than 400 laws passed by lawmakers last year went into effect last July, October and January.
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