After years of groundwater decline and failed legislative action, a court decision in January affirmed the state’s right to limit groundwater pumping using the most current scientific data, but full implementation of the ruling may take some time. Last week, the state engineer — Nevada’s top water regulator — expanded on how the state will manage water resources in the aftermath of the recent Nevada Supreme Court decision that affirmed the state’s authority to develop science-based solutions to over-pumping, including managing surface water and groundwater as a single connected source when determining water rights.
A sweeping state review of existing K-12 school district audits released Wednesday raised the prospect that more than half of third graders could be held back in coming years, and elicited questions from top state leaders over just how effective a $2.6 billion boost in state funding for education will be. The 154-page report, made public during a Wednesday meeting of the Executive Branch Audit Committee, also raised concerns about funding for free lunches lapsing and a state education agency lacking power to command accountability. It comes after Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo and Democratic lawmakers spent much of the 2023 legislative feuding over education policy, including how best to track how districts will spend the largest K-12 budget in state history.
Nevada’s two Democratic senators and lone Republican member of Congress have joined the chorus of opposition to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) plans to move its Reno mail processing operations to Sacramento, The Nevada Independent has learned. Under the proposal, the Reno facility — which is the hub for Northern Nevada mail — would no longer be responsible for processing mail and would instead become a center that would prepare already-processed mail for delivery. This means that if someone from Northern Nevada sends something in the mail, it would first go to Sacramento before reaching its destination.
Some mountain biking trails may only be suitable for more experienced riders, but a pump track — a circular, paved bike park with turns, berms, and other features — is designed to be used by anyone. At its regular meeting on March 5, the Winnemucca City Council approved a proposal for the design and construction of a pump track at the recreation complex in east Winnemucca, near Lowry High School.
Exceptionally high natural gas bills this winter have led many customers to accuse Southwest Gas, the largest natural gas provider in the state, of price gouging. Customers across the state who haven’t changed their usage are seeing their bills run two or three times as much as they did the year prior, with some bills tallying hundreds of dollars more per month — all while natural gas benchmark prices have reached a three-decade low.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown, a veteran and the likely front-runner to take on Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in the state’s 2024 U.S. Senate race, says he would not support a federal abortion ban if elected and will respect Nevada law allowing abortion up to 24 weeks. Brown’s comments came in an interview with NBC alongside his wife, Amy Brown, who revealed Wednesday that she became unexpectedly pregnant and had an abortion when she was 24.
On February 20, 2024 at approximately 4:15p.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by the Nampa Police Department regarding Anthony Erasmo Madrid Jr., 25 years of age, from Nampa, Idaho who had fled from Idaho Law Enforcement Agencies after being involved in four separate shooting incidents in Caldwell and Nampa, including shooting at a Nampa Police Officer who attempted to apprehend him.
The Winnemucca Grammar School (WGS) just finished the third season with WGS Lego robotics competition teams. The two teams are part of the FIRST and FIRST Nevada organizations. This year’s teams included 6-8 fourth graders who were all new to the FIRST Lego League (FLL). These students were chosen based on letters of interest they submitted in third grade.
CARSON CITY — In October of 1980, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office (NCSO) Deputies located the remains of an unknown male adult approximately one mile east of US95 and 60 miles south of Tonopah, Nevada near a dirt road.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada State Treasurer’s Office announced that it is accepting applications for the 2024 Kenny C. Guinn Memorial Scholarship, which awards $5,000 scholarships to four college students across Nevada who are working towards becoming an educator.
On Sunday, Feb. 25, at approximately 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time, a Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP) Trooper was on routine patrol on US-93 near mile marker 93 in White Pine County.
Medications like buprenorphine and naltrexone have been proven to reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms in people with opioid use disorder. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Pharmacists in Nevada will soon be able to prescribe medications designed to help opioid addiction. The regulation, R059-23, was approved Tuesday by the Legislative Commission, a 11-member bipartisan board of legislators that gives final stamps of approval on regulations established by executive branch agencies and boards. State Sen. Lisa Krasner, R-Reno, cast the only vote in opposition.
What do a state lawmaker, federal land use manager, wildlife advocate, biologist, rancher and animal activist have in common? Not much, it turns out, when it comes to agreeing on how to address Nevada’s swelling wild horse population. There are about 90,000 wild horses nationwide. More than half — about 50,000 — are in Nevada. The state can sustain a population of around 20,000, according to public land use managers.
Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar publicly apologized Thursday morning for a highly publicized computer glitch that led to online voting records reflecting people participated in the presidential primary when they didn’t, and said that an in-the-works centralized voter registration system would prevent such errors in the future. Aguilar reiterated in a press release Thursday that the issue did not affect vote tabulation during the state’s recent presidential primary, and there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the state.
An extended economic hangover caused by high electric and natural gas bills for Nevada ratepayers will begin to subside in April, as the exorbitant cost of natural gas in 2022 and early 2023, coupled with higher usage resulting from frigid temperatures that winter, fall off the 12-month rolling average used by NV Energy and Southwest Gas to calculate bills. The annualized decrease for Southwest Gas customers in Southern Nevada, scheduled to take effect in April, amounts to $105.5 million, or about 10% for a single-family home, and a reduction of $69.8 million or 12.4% for households in Northern Nevada.