RENO — Researchers attempting to help predict how the wildfire hazard will change due to various factors over the next several decades have some good news, and some bad news. Good news is, wildfire occurrence and intensity will likely decrease in several locations in the future. The bad news: decreases may not occur for another 50 years, and wildfire hazard will likely get worse before it gets better.
“I don’t know how to do that.” is a common phrase we hear at the beginning of Nevada Outdoor School camps. From putting up a tent to using a compass, there is a lot to learn in order to recreate responsibility outdoors!
A man was rescued from Lake Tahoe on Wednesday after getting separated from his jet ski near Cave Rock and spending nearly two hours in the water.
A research document just released by an international pool funded study led by the Nevada Department of Transportation provides an authoritative review of the most effective measures to reduce animal-vehicle collisions, improve motorist safety, and offer safer crossings for wildlife. Road ecologists and engineers, including from the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University, have released Cost Effective Solutions: Literature Review, the first of many reports to be released by partners in the Transportation Pooled Fund Study [TPF-5(538)]: Wildlife Vehicle Collision (WVC) Reduction and Habitat Connectivity.
The Nevada Division of State Parks is currently accepting grant project pre-applications in anticipation of the 2023 Federal Highway Administration funding of the Recreational Trails Program (RTP). Submittal of a pre-application is required to determine project eligibility. Eligible pre-applicants will be encouraged to submit full funding proposals in the fall of 2022.
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.
The U.S. inflation rate is at a 40-year high. This year, the stock market recorded its worst first half since 1970, and economic output contracted during the first quarter. In June, the Federal Reserve announced its largest interest rate hike since 1994. Despite the combination of economic headwinds, the national unemployment rate is historically low at 3.6 percent, and consumer spending remains strong. Still, the U.S. economy sits in a precarious position. Consumers are facing surging prices for common goods from fuel to fruit, while wages are failing to keep pace. A growing number of economists are warning that a recession is coming.
A nuclear waste treatment plant in eastern Idaho designed to treat 900,000 gallons (3.4 million liters) of sodium-bearing, radioactive waste that has had numerous setbacks appears to be making progress, officials said. The U.S. Department of Energy this week said that the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at the department's 890-square-mile site that includes the Idaho National Laboratory recently treated more than 100,000 gallons of simulant over seven weeks.
With hundreds of full-time employees, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is one of the state’s largest agencies, responsible for a wide array of activities, from overseeing state parks and wildland fire crews to regulating industrial pollution and managing water rights. Earlier this month, the agency got a new leader. Gov. Steve Sisolak appointed Jim Lawrence, who has worked at the agency since 1998, to serve as the acting director. The move followed the departure of Brad Crowell, who was picked to serve on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency. The leadership change comes at a time when the state — and the region — face a number of ongoing interconnected environmental issues, including a prolonged drought that has strained water supplies, pressures on public land, increasingly risky wildfire behavior and extreme heat.
Faced with an ever-deepening staffing shortage and a correctional officer vacancy rate that has hit 32 percent, leaders at the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) said they are trying to rethink their staffing model and explore using surveillance wristbands, sensors and drones to reduce their need for manpower.
Groups affiliated with Gov. Steve Sisolak and other prominent Nevada Democrats were the financial backers of organizations that spent millions to drag down Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo and other more moderate Republicans ahead of the state’s June primary. Campaign finance reports released Friday show that Home Means Nevada — a political action committee set up by Sisolak’s 2018 campaign apparatus and headed by prominent Democratic political strategist Rebecca Lambe — contributed $685,000 to Patriot Freedom Fund, a recently created political action committee that ran web and radio ads and sent dozens of mailers attacking Lombardo from the right on issues such as guns and abortion.
Nevada’s “red flag” law that allows police and family members to petition a court to temporarily take away an individual’s firearms has been used just over a dozen times over the last two years. According to records kept by the state’s Department of Public Safety, 13 high risk protection orders have been issued since the state’s red flag law went into effect in January 2020. Nine were filed in Clark County, two were filed in Elko County and one each was filed in Douglas County and Carson City.
If you have lost a loved one or friend to death, you are probably feeling a deep sense of grief. Without support and encouragement, it’s possible that you will become stuck in your grief, and healing will be difficult to impossible. Often, friends and family want to help but don’t know how. That is the reason for Griefshare.
Among the sagebrush and sand within the Nevadan deserts, specifically that of Humboldt County, are rare and lucrative pockets of lithium waiting to be mined, refined, and turned into battery-quality lithium carbonate, which powers countless every-day items. Lithium Americas held the grand opening of its new 30,000 square foot Technical Center in Reno, Nev., on July 20, which will accommodate research and development projects necessary to keep the evolution of the most advanced lithium mining project in the United States—located in McDermitt, NV— striving for bigger, better, and greener goals. The Thacker Pass site, which is approximately 60 miles from Winnemucca NV, has received approval from the Bureau of Land Management that permits the beginning of construction, according to Lithium Americas.
On Thursday June 30, 2022 at approximately 3:40 p.m. Pacific Time, Troopers with the Nevada State Police, Highway Patrol Division, responded to a vehicle crash on Interstate 80, near mile marker 70 (state mile marker 159) in Pershing County. This location is approximately 17 miles west of Winnemucca, NV.