There is a reason Madison Square Garden Chief Financial Officer David Brynes spent a large portion of the company’s quarterly conference call last month explaining the advertising, marketing and promotional potential for the off-Strip $2.17 billion MSG Sphere project. The investment community wants to know how the publicly traded company plans to recoup its expenses to build the entertainment attraction behind The Venetian.
The American Red Cross of Northern Nevada announced it has received $25,000 from the NV Energy Foundation to help support the non-profit’s statewide disaster response effort, including wildfires. “We’re all aware that wildfires in the Sierra Nevada are increasing in size and intensity, threatening communities throughout the area,” said Mary Powell, Executive Director of the American Red Cross Northern Nevada Chapter. “This donation is specifically earmarked for our ongoing initiative to help residents affected by wildfires and other emergencies.”
Nevada lawmakers recently approved several major allocations of federal aid, including more than $28 million to fund an additional year of universal free school meals for the 2023-24 school year and $11 million for an affordable housing project in Las Vegas’ Historic Westside. Those allocations, and others approved Thursday, further deplete Nevada’s $2.7 billion share of flexible aid from the American Rescue Plan (ARP), a federal relief package passed in March 2021. Now, as Republican Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo prepares to take office next month, he and state lawmakers will have about $38 million (1.4 percent of the total amount) in flexible ARP funds to allocate by the end of 2024.
An interim panel of state legislators unanimously approved nearly $36 million in back pay for more than 14,800 state workers, restoring income for employees who were mandated to take 48 hours of furloughs during the earliest months of the pandemic. The state’s Interim Finance Committee, a group made up of lawmakers from both parties who sit on both the Assembly and Senate budget committees, took the action following an announcement by outgoing Gov. Steve Sisolak in May that he would seek to restore pay to furloughed state workers.
“Everything all at once, yesterday.” That’s how a federal water manager described dealing with the Colorado River at a conference of water users in Las Vegas this week. The river faces a crisis fueled by overuse and amplified by climate change — and as Wayne Pullan, the upper Colorado River regional director for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation stated, officials are taking an all-hands approach. "We joke within the region that we're going to change our slogan" to the Latin phrase for "everything all at once, yesterday," Pullan said during a meeting Wednesday.
A U.S. Senate bill to strengthen election laws against plots like the Nevada GOP’s fake elector scheme — when six self-purported electors held a ceremony outside the Legislature pledging electoral votes to then-President Donald Trump — is expected to get a vote next week.
A Sparks resident was sentenced on Monday by Chief U.S. District Judge Miranda M. Du to 77 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawful possession of three firearms after prior felony convictions.
McDermitt Combined School held its annual Christmas Assembly with fun and games and also gifts for each of the students. For the past few years Bob and Sandy Ellis from Henderson has donated gifts and money to students.
Serving as a County Commissioner is not always easy, but it sure is worthwhile, according to James “Jim” French, who served on the Humboldt County Board of Commissioners for the past 12 years.
The high desert of Nevada may soon become the West Coast’s largest supplier of farm-raised Atlantic salmon. West Coast Salmon of Nevada last week spoke with NNBW about its ambitious plans to build an industrial-scale Atlantic salmon farming operation near the Cosgrove Rest Area in northern Pershing County. The site lies about 15 miles southwest of Winnemucca and was a former hay farming operation, said Ralph Runge, vice president of development for West Coast Salmon of Nevada.
It’s not every day that local law enforcement has the opportunity to learn with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), but Winnemucca Police Chief Mike Rangel returned from 11 weeks of extensive study at the FBI National Academy on Dec. 8.
Things and places tend to become a bit banal when they are a part of everyday life—they lose their luster. For Children’s Author, Haley Argyle, Winnemucca is certainly not lacking in luster. For her first book, Flurry’s Nose: A Snowgirl Tale, Winnemucca served as an inspiration for both characters and scenery.
The Humboldt County Board of Commissioners met for its regular meeting on Dec. 12.
A 57-year-old Nevada man who served jail time on an arson charge in Elko five years ago has been arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat in Wendover.
The University of Nevada, Reno will host the annual Cattlemen’s Update in person and virtually in 2023, Jan. 9-13. For over 50 years, the University has held several sessions across Nevada in January to provide ranchers with current research-based information about issues that may affect the efficiency, productivity, profitability and sustainability of their businesses and Nevada’s cattle industry. The five-day event, offered virtually on Jan. 9, and then in person at four locations across the state, is a partnership led by the University’s College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources, and its Extension and Experiment Station units.