After nearly two decades in Nevada politics, Republican Senate Minority Leader Heidi Seevers Gansert (R-Reno) told The Nevada Independent that she will not run for re-election in her competitive Northern Nevada Senate district in 2024, leaving her seat open for the first time since 2016. Selected as the Senate minority leader for the 2023 legislative session, Seevers Gansert, 60, was among the most powerful Republican lawmakers in Carson City last session, wielding a caucus just large enough to block measures, such as tax increases, that required two-thirds passage.
The Nevada Commission on Ethics was thrust into the spotlight this week when the eight-member group decided Gov. Joe Lombardo had violated state ethics laws by wearing a sheriff’s badge in campaign ads and was issued a $20,000 fine — the largest ever since the commission’s creation in 1975 — as well as a censure. Though Lombardo may have been top of mind last week, the commission oversees various levels of government. From city councils to county commissions, public officers and employees in the executive branch are overseen and occasionally investigated by the Nevada Commission on Ethics. Employees or officials in the legislative or judicial branches of state government are not subject to commission oversight, but have other entities that oversee ethics rules and conduct.
A judge has asked federal land managers to explain why they should be allowed to continue capturing more than 2,500 wild horses in northeastern Nevada — a roundup opponents say is illegal and has left 31 mustangs dead in 26 days.
Last Wednesday, the Pershing County Board of Commissioners approved the recreation department's grant of $100,000 to the Truckee Meadows Boys & Girls Club (BGC) for startup costs in Lovelock. The money comes from room taxes. Commissioner Shayla Hudson stipulated that if, for any reason, the Club does not materialize, the funds revert to the recreation board.
Just one week before school resumes in Humboldt County, the Nevada Department of Transportation will be closing the bridge on Hanson Street in order to resurface the state route. The closure will result in detouring 12,000 motorists who utilize the overpass daily to just two alternate crossings at Bridge Street and East Winnemucca Boulevard. There are no plans from NDOT to relieve stress on the four-way stop near the railroad tracks (Bridge Street and Haskell), such as additional traffic controls during peak commute times.
Whether they are above or below ground, operating heavy equipment bigger than most houses, or handling serious chemicals, miners take their safety and the safety of others very seriously.
Casino mogul Steve Wynn has ended a yearslong legal fight with Nevada gambling regulators that started with claims of workplace sexual misconduct, agreeing to pay a $10 million fine and cut ties to the industry he helped shape in Las Vegas.
Following “hazardous financial conditions” and an inability to repay debts or achieve solvency, health insurer Friday Health Plans of Nevada Inc. will be liquidated by Sept. 1, leaving approximately 3,000 Nevada enrollees scrambling to find another insurance option by the end of August.
Highways open the world to drivers, linking cities, states and nations. At the same time, they often create deadly barriers for wildlife, disrupting migration corridors and bisecting critical habitat, leading to collisions that cause substantial damage to human property and lives. In Nevada, more than 500 vehicle collisions with large animals are reported each year. These accidents can annually cost the public more than $19 million for expenses like infrastructure damage, emergency response and traffic control.
he Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP), along with the Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will host the first Nevada Brownfield Workshop this September. Workshops are available in Henderson on Sept. 7 and Carson City on Sept. 13.
Consider this scenario described by a Venmo user: Six calls in the space of 50 minutes, none of which you answer. The voicemail you get seems confusing: “. . . you've requested this account. If it was not you, press 1.” Then you get a text from Venmo with a code, then another call asking for the code. Be careful! It’s a scammer pretending to be Venmo to get into your account.
The Nevada Commission on Ethics voted to censure and fine Gov. Joe Lombardo $20,000 for using his Clark County sheriff uniform and badge while the Republican was running for governor in 2022, but declined to levy the proposed full $1.6 million fine.
Due to drying vegetation, increasing daytime temperatures and some human-caused fires the Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District Office; the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Western Nevada Agency; Bureau of Reclamation, California - Great Basin Region; Nevada Division of Forestry, Public Domain Allotments; and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge Complex announce the implementation of fire restrictions on all lands under their jurisdiction effective Friday, July 29, at 12:01 a.m. and lasting until further notice.
Substantial portions of Humboldt, Elko, Washoe and Pershing counties and the northern tips of Lander and Eureka counties have an “above normal” chance of seeing significant wildfire activity through October, according to the National Interagency Fire Center’s Predictive Services office.
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 Democratic lawmakers 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.