The design of a new 29,400 square-foot municipal swimming pool facility is taking shape and the Winnemucca City Council reviewed the plans for the exterior renderings at its regular meeting on Feb. 20 (with all Council members present).
Officials say Nevada’s state budget will be more accessible than ever thanks to a new Nevada Open Finance Portal launched Tuesday. Controller Andy Matthews spearheaded the effort to build a user-friendly online tool that shares detailed information on state spending. In the portal, Nevadans can see information on the state’s budget, payroll, pension disbursements, even state employees’ overtime benefits, all of which are updated nightly.
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has moved its legal corporate home from Delaware to Nevada after a Delaware judge struck down Musk's $55.8 billion pay package as CEO of Tesla. Neuralink, which has its physical headquarters in Fremont, California, became a Nevada company on Thursday, according to state records. Delaware records also list the company's legal home as Nevada.
GREEN RIVER, Utah (AP) — A plan to extract lithium — the lustrous, white metal used in electric vehicle batteries — in southeast Utah is adding to an anxiety familiar in the arid American West: how the project could affect water from the Colorado River. An Australian company and its U.S. subsidiaries are analyzing the saline waters in a geologic formation shared by Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, an area called the Paradox Basin. The area's groundwater is rich in lithium salts and other minerals from when it was a marine basin millions of years ago that repeatedly flooded and drained.
Results from the 2024 Presidential Preference Primary Election held on Feb. 6, determine Humboldt County’s choice for democratic candidates heading to the Democratic National Convention that may become presidential candidates during the General Election in November.
RENO — The University of Nevada, Reno has hired Robin Schimandle as the new director of development for the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources to support the College’s various programs that promote student learning, scientific research, and community engagement and programs throughout the state.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada jury has awarded about $130 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by five people who suffered liver damage after drinking bottled water marketed by a Las Vegas-based company before the product was recalled from store shelves in 2021. The Clark County District Court jury awarded more than $30 million in compensatory damages to the plaintiffs including Myles Hunwardsen, a Henderson man who underwent a liver transplant at age 29. The jury levied another $100 million in punitive damages.
“The Nevada Way.” It may just sound like a street name — and in fact, it became one last year — but the novel idiom favored by Gov. Joe Lombardo has become symbolic of the Republican governor’s efforts to reroute the course of the Silver State in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and past Democratic control of state government. The phrase is scattered throughout his administration’s “3-year plan” and “policy matrix,” a strategic plan shared internally in the Lombardo administration and obtained by The Nevada Independent.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly last week to approve a $95 billion emergency spending package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Border security was not included in the bill. The measure now goes to the U.S. House, where Speaker Mike Johnson hasn’t committed to putting the bill on the floor for debate or votes amid opposition to the military and humanitarian assistance from some in the right flank of his conference.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump told thousands of members of the National Rifle Association that “no one will lay a finger on your firearms" if he returns to the White House, and said that during his time as president he “didn’t yield” to the pressure to encroach upon Second Amendment rights.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's Democratic allies are launching an aggressive defense against a special counsel's explosive claims that the 81-year-old president couldn't remember major milestones in his life, trying to diminish the significance of the prosecutor's allegations that Biden was too forgetful to be charged for mishandling classified material.
Nevadans, many of whom are struggling to pay their electricity bills, are now being asked to reimburse NV Energy for $5.75 million in employee bonuses, thanks to an amended order from Public Utilities Commissioner Randy Brown. Brown has led the charge to have ratepayers, rather than shareholders, foot the bill for the utility’s employee bonuses.
RENO — The State Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee approved a $7.5 million match for a $75 million appropriation from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to fund Nevada’s Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs). The state government’s provision of $7.5 million, in partnership with the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN), is a continuation of the investment that the state has made in contributing to national security and in creating the businesses and new jobs that will power broader national and statewide economic development.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials have agreed to conduct a full, year-long review to determine whether a tiny snail found only in high-desert springs near a huge lithium mine being built along the Nevada-Oregon line should be listed as a threatened or endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a finding published Thursday in the Federal Register that enough scientific exists to warrant the review sought by environmentalists who say that groundwater pumping required for the operation of the Thacker Pass mine could push the Kings River pyrg to the brink of extinction.
The U.S. Drought Monitor on Tuesday listed western Nevada as “abnormally dry” despite early February storms. “Abnormally dry” is the lowest level of the five-tiered system used to rank the severity of a drought.