Nevada and Canada share a significant trade relationship and an international partnership that strengthens the strategic development of economic opportunities in both regions.
Jason Bleak runs Battle Mountain General Hospital, a small facility in a remote Nevada gold-mining town that he describes as "out here in the middle of nowhere." When several representatives from private health insurance companies called on him a few years ago to offer Medicare Advantage plan contracts so their enrollees could use his hospital, Bleak sent them away. "Come back to the table with a better offer," the chief executive recalls telling them. The representatives haven't returned.
The Pershing County Water Conservation District’s headquarters in Lovelock sits off Interstate 80 a few miles before the Humboldt River disappears into a desert sink. Farmers here have priority rights to water in times of drought, according to the laws that govern the Humboldt River, which rises in northeastern Nevada and cuts a meandering blue line through valleys of sagebrush. But despite their high-priority rights, these irrigators face shortage after shortage.
RENO – The Bureau of Land Management Nevada State Office today announced an oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Dec. 5, 2023, to offer four oil and gas parcels totaling 3,498.342 acres in Nevada.
RENO — On Oct. 10, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) opened a 30-day public comment period to inform the direction of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (EA) that will cover a range of Special Recreation Permits (SRPs) for Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) events on 8,879 miles of roads and trails in Nevada.
Former Vice President Mike Pence filed last week to run in Nevada’s presidential primary, opting not to participate in the Nevada Republican Party’s caucus — and with it, skipping out on an opportunity to win any Nevada delegates at the Republican National Convention.
Nevada officials have approved a $1.6 million settlement with the family of an incarcerated man who died at a state prison in 2014 after a correctional officer fired birdshot rounds at him.
RENO — The Nevada Mining Association (NVMA) is pleased to announce that Amanda Hilton has been named as President.
Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) are calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to refreeze $6 billion in Iranian assets, joining a call made by many Republicans and a handful of Democrats in the wake of Hamas militants’ attack on Israel.
Electrical grid failures have been pinpointed as sources of some of the country’s most damaging and deadly wildfires — the 2018 Camp and Woolsey fires in California, the 2020 Santiam Fire in Oregon and the 2021 Marshall Fire in Colorado. When the smoke dissipates, the cost of paying for these disasters hits utilities, and their customers, hard.
More than two and a half years after President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) into law, Nevada lawmakers are still working to allocate the remaining relief funding from the state’s original $2.7 billion pot of flexible state aid, after voting Wednesday to deobligate $43 million from a pair of public health projects.
Abby Madore covers a lot of ground each day at work. A staffer at a community health center in Carson City, Nevada, Madore spends her days helping low-income residents understand their health insurance options, including Medicaid. Her phone is always ringing, she said, as she fields calls from clients who dial in from the state’s remote reaches seeking help.
Despite his well-documented opposition to a state-managed public health care option, Gov. Joe Lombardo’s administration is moving forward on implementation with a twist — establishing a reinsurance program for the state. As part of implementing the public option, state officials are applying for a federal State Innovation Waiver, which allows states to apply for funding to help increase access to high-quality, affordable health insurance.
The first Las Vegas Formula One Grand Prix in decades is being billed as a spectacle like no other — promising some of the fastest cars in the world barreling down the Las Vegas Strip at close to 200 miles per hour. Seeing that spectacle won’t be cheap.
An ordinance approved by the Winnemucca City Council at their regular meeting on Oct. 10, with all members present, will help enhance the charge for illegally discharging a weapon within City limits from a misdemeanor to a felony.