Although the national defense spending bill for 2023 has passed the U.S. House without the proposed expansion of the Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada’s 2nd U.S. House District Rep. Mark Amodei said on Nevada Newsmakers Tuesday that he hopes the Senate will ride to the Navy’s rescue, eventually. “I think it has to start in the Senate and because the Senate is the Senate, they start late with everything,” Amodei told host Sam Shad. “So in the Senate, the (National) Defense Authorization Act is still to be baked, if you will.”
From the stage of a small church in rural Nevada to the big stages in Nashville, Winnemucca native Lauren Reno, (previously Lauren Dimock), has garnered major success with her music career and is traveling from her current home in Nashville, Tenn., to perform a homecoming show at the Eldorado in Reno on Oct. 15. She will be performing songs from her debut album—Gold Rush—which was released on Sept. 23 and was inspired by her father’s life working as an underground miner.
Nevada’s top-of-the-ticket Democratic incumbents Gov. Steve Sisolak and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto narrowly trail their respective Republican opponents, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo and former Attorney General Adam Laxalt, according to a new Nevada Independent/OH Predictive Insights likely voters poll released last week. In the high-profile U.S. Senate race, where outside groups are spending tens of millions of dollars to try to swing control of the upper chamber of Congress, Laxalt leads Cortez Masto by 2 points (45 percent to 43 percent).
Even as Republican candidates continue to pummel incumbent Democrats on a faltering economy, they have launched a fresh salvo of attacks over immigration. Last week, Republican Senate hopeful and former Attorney General Adam Laxalt tied his opponent, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), directly to the Biden White House in a new TV ad accusing Democrats of “dismantling border security” and denying the existence of “open borders.”
Sixty percent of Republican voters, along with several Republican candidates for federal and statewide offices, oppose implementing open primaries and ranked-choice voting in Nevada’s elections, according to a new Nevada Independent/OH Predictive Insights poll. Their overwhelming opposition — just 16 percent of Republican likely voters expressed support for the initiative — marks a growing trend of bipartisan disapproval of the major election changes proposed by Question 3 on this year’s general election ballot. It reverses a position of stronger support recorded among Nevada voters as recently as 10 weeks ago.
Despite a slight year-to-year dip, Nevada’s legal cannabis industry still reported nearly $1 billion in taxable sales over the last fiscal year, with a sizable chunk transferred to the state’s education budget. This fiscal year’s $965 million in taxable funds is about a 4 percent decrease from the previous fiscal year which generated over $1 billion in taxable funds to the state, according to a press release issued Friday by the Cannabis Compliance Board, which regulates the legal marijuana industry in the state. The fiscal year ran from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022.
Amid an increase in fatal and non-fatal overdoses — including many caused by fentanyl misuse — Gov. Steve Sisolak and state health officials are creating a statewide task force focused on reducing and responding to the issue.
Victims of a quick series of stabbings on the Las Vegas Strip described the shock and horror of the unexpected attack on a group of showgirls and others outside a casino that left two people dead and six injured. Police arrested Yoni Barrios, 32, after a short chase blocks from where they say he attacked four showgirls and ended up stabbing eight people on Thursday.
The California Trail Interpretive Center (CTIC) will resume a five-day per week schedule as of Oct. 2022. Operating hours will be Wednesday through Sunday 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Located eight miles west of Elko, Nevada at the Hunter exit on Interstate 80, the CTIC is a favorite place to visit for the local public and travelers.
From road maintenance to hospitals and fire departments, taxes fund many of the important services that any county provides to its residents. With revenue for Humboldt County primarily based on Consolidated Tax (CTX), it is an especially important component to maintaining a healthy variety of services to the community.
It’s that time again— to cast votes and have a say. Early voting begins Oct. 22 for the 2022 General Election and regular voting begins Nov.8.
The Winnemucca City Council approved a proposal to rent a city-owned apartment above the old fire station to the Family Support Center (FSC) in order to house traveling mental health professionals, also discussed at the Council’s previous meeting. Three hundred dollars was the amount the Council agreed upon for the monthly rental fee for the apartment, which is currently empty.
Thousands of people in hundreds of cars took over northern Nevada parking lots and intersections Friday night and into Saturday, performing stunts in souped-up vehicles and leading to crashes and arrests, police said. Police beefed up nighttime staffing after social media posts urged people from San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, to come to the ``sideshow'' in Reno, Police Lt. Michael Browett said.
The Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA), alongside the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) Foundation, is seeking participants for the Women’s Farm2Food Accelerator program, starting in November of this year. This is the second year this workforce development program is being offered to Nevadans, following the successful completion of the pilot program earlier this year and positive feedback from the nine initial participants.
What should you do with fall alfalfa? Leave it? Cut it? Graze it? Each of these options can be correct under appropriate conditions. Making the best decision requires balancing the associated rewards and risks with each option. In the past, producers have been advised to cut hay 4-6 weeks prior to a killing frost (The average first frost date for most of Northern Nevada is October 1st- 10th). This advice is based on the fact that alfalfa plants need time to store carbohydrates in their root system prior to a killing frost in order to prevent winter kill. About 50 percent of the stored carbohydrates are used during the winter for plant survival. The remaining carbohydrates are available in the spring for initial herbage growth.