RENO – Care Flight-REMSA Health paused service of the Care Flight fixed-wing aircraft program following the medical transport plane crash that occurred Friday, Feb. 24, 2023 outside of Stagecoach, Nevada. With tremendous support from the community, the entire Care Flight-REMSA Health team continues to navigate the loss of the five lives onboard.
CARSON CITY — Nevadans interested in training to become foster parents in rural Nevada have an opportunity to join a four-session virtual training beginning Jan. 20. The Nevada Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) is working to recruit and train foster families in Nevada’s 15 rural counties to support children in need.
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — U.S. presidential elections have been rocked in recent years by economic disaster, stunning gaffes, secret video, a Russian collusion hoax, Hunter’s laptop and a pandemic. But for all the tumult that defined those campaigns, the volatility surrounding this year’s presidential contest has few modern parallels. Not since the Supreme Court effectively decided the 2000 campaign in favor of Republican George W. Bush has the judiciary been so intertwined with presidential politics.
For the first time in more than four decades, Nevada will hold presidential primaries — rather than caucuses — on Feb. 6, 2024. The transition comes after a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled Legislature and Gov. Steve Sisolak approved a 2021 law requiring that a presidential preference primary election be held for each major political party on the first Tuesday in February of a presidential election year.
More than 80 laws passed by the Legislature in 2023 went into effect Jan. 1, including measures that restrict the use of solitary confinement in Nevada prisons and expand Medicaid coverage for postpartum care and adults with autism. The group of the roughly 540 bills signed by Gov. Joe Lombardo after this year’s 120-day legislative session also include measures implementing higher penalties for selling tobacco products to people younger than 21 and expanding voting access for people in Nevada jails.
CARSON CITY — U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is hiring 40 Climate Change Fellows to help with the record numbers of applications from farmers, ranchers and rural small businesses seeking funding for clean energy projects under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).
After his promotion ceremony to chief warrant officer 5 in Reno earlier this month, Carson City resident Steve Nielsen compared his military career to a rare celestial event. “Every star in the galaxy had to align just right for me to reach this point in my career,” said Nielsen, the longtime Nevada Army Guard aviator whose extraordinary life has included several brushes with death, behavioral health challenges and – as he attests – some unadulterated pure luck.
CARSON CITY — Eastbound Interstate 80 traffic will be detoured to travel over interstate ramps at West Winnemucca exit 173 beginning Jan. 2 as the Nevada Department of Transportation makes bridge repairs.
All Nevada drought designations are likely to lift by this spring, according to data released Thursday by the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center.
The times and locations for the 2024 Cattlemen’s Update are as follows: Jan. 8 — Virtual Webinar via Zoom. Register for the webinar. The presentation begins at 10 a.m. Jan. 9 — Fallon Convention Center, 100 Campus Way. Jan. 9 at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be provided. Jan.10 —Ely Convention Center, 150 W. 6th S., Ely. Jan. 10 at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be provided. Jan. 11 — Great Basin College, 1500 College Parkway, Elko. 12:30 p.m. in the GBC Theater. Dinner in the GBC Reynolds Solarium Jan. 12 — Paradise Valley Community Hall, 50 S. Main St. Paradise Valley. 10 a.m. Lunch will be provided. Times given for the in-person sessions are registration times with the program beginning 30 minutes later.
Here’s what is coming down the pipeline for Nevada’s congressional delegation next year: More government shutdown risks
When Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford sought a grand jury indictment against the six Republican “fake electors” who attempted to cast electoral votes for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, he chose to bring the case in Las Vegas. Richard Wright, who represented the six defendants in Clark County District Court at their arraignment Monday, told The Nevada Independent in a Wednesday interview that he plans to request dismissal of the case on venue grounds, saying Ford’s choice of Clark County is a “politically expedient” move, because the county — and its pool of potential jurors — lean more Democratic than the other potential trial sites.
A new policy issued this week by Gov. Joe Lombardo’s administration functionally ended more-lenient remote work guidelines for state employees, reverting back to pre-pandemic norms 11 months after Lombardo initially moved to send workers back to the office.
Although Nevada’s graduation rate has remained fairly steady for the past two years — at about 81 percent — State Superintendent of Public Education Jhone Ebert said she is optimistic that a historic infusion of funds from the Legislature this year will help districts get their numbers back to levels not seen since before COVID-19 pandemic. More than 31,000 Nevada students, or 81.4 percent, graduated in 2023, a slight dip from 2022’s rate of 81.7 percent.
Google reached a $700 million agreement with the 52 attorneys general across the United States to settle a lawsuit over the search engine’s behavior with its Google Play Store.