Allowing Medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs is one of the most popular aspects of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, and a bill proposed by Nevada lawmakers would apply those drug price caps statewide — not just for people on Medicare.
After years of back-to-back drought, a historic — and in many cases, record breaking — volume of water has accumulated as snow in mountains across western Nevada and the Great Basin.
It’s been a busy week at the Capitol, with federal lawmakers examining what caused Silicon Valley Bank to fail and whether TikTok is a big enough national security risk to warrant banning the app. Meanwhile, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced a bill to crack down on a dangerous tranquilizer that’s drawn the attention of leadership.
Despite its reputation as the largest climate bill ever enacted in the United States, the Inflation Reduction Act passed last year did not trigger an end to leasing federal public land to drill for fossil fuels, as some environmental groups had advocated for. The legislation did, however, tighten the rules for oil and gas leasing. It implemented reforms to a process that has long benefited the fossil fuel industry, especially in Nevada where there is rampant speculative leasing in which companies lease public land but fail to develop the parcels, preventing the land from being managed for other interests, including for conservation.
Nearly three years after the National Labor Relations Board sued Nevada’s largest gold mining business for not recognizing a union that had been in place for decades, a collective bargaining committee reached an agreement with the company this week for a new three-year contract.
With fiscal restraints paired with dropping enrollment rates, the Humboldt County School District (HCSD) Board of Trustees must make hard decisions when it comes to staffing schools for the 2023-2024 school year. At the HCSD Board of Trustees meeting on March 28, the Board discussed the proposed staffing plan for the upcoming school year as an information only item with all members present.
Taking fake prescription drugs is like playing Russian roulette with a five chamber revolver that has three bullets in it, authorities say. Synthetic opioids, specifically fentanyl, are responsible for more overdose deaths than any other drug and local law enforcement and other first responders are encountering them at an alarming rate in Humboldt County.
The Lowry High School track and field team finally got some time at a meet this year and provided a strong showing in Battle Mountain on Friday. Hannah Thompson led a 1-2-3-4 finish in the pole vault with a mark of 7 feet, followed by Ashley Rookstool, Ashlyn Bottoms and Elma Jimenez. Sydnee Pettis won the long jump with a mark of 16-3.5, as well as the 100-meter dash at 13.12.
It is with gratitude that we thank the many people and resources that made BeeHive Homes a success these past 25 years.
Starting April 1, all Nevadans on Medicaid will start to have their accounts redetermined on an annual basis for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, causing many Nevadans to potentially lose their health care coverage. Nevada Health Link is helping to coordinate the transfer of qualifying applications to NevadaHealthLink.com to ensure Nevadans stay covered.
Great Basin College’s (GBC) Alternate Route to Licensure (ARL) Program offers a specialized path to teaching licensure for students. Students who are enrolled in the program have completed a bachelor’s degree from regionally accredited institutions.
Food banks help bridge the gap for many people or families that may require supplemental food resources in a time of need and the Winnemucca Food Bank (WFB) is no exception. On April 15, the WFB will be celebrating its 15th anniversary from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. with raffles and prizes, donations, and education. “We would like people to just come in and see what the Food Bank is like because it’s no longer going to get a box of food and leaving like it used to be,” explained WFB Director Barbara Sealy.
After 12 days off, the Lowry High School softball team got back on the field for three games in Elko last week. The Lady Bucks opened with a 7-4 win on Thursday and split Friday’s contests, winning the opener 16-6 and dropping the second game 5-4. The Lady Bucks are 9-2 overall and 2-1 in the Northern 3A East.
State Sen. Fabian Doñate (D-Las Vegas) presented his highly anticipated bill looking to expand Medicaid to Nevada’s undocumented population Tuesday afternoon in a hearing that lasted nearly four hours.
Nevada’s relationship with the lottery could soon change. A proposed constitutional amendment sponsored by Assemblyman Cameron (C.H.) Miller (D-North Las Vegas), AJR5, would repeal the state’s 159-year-old constitutional ban on lotteries. Miller said in an interview with The Nevada Independent that revenue generated by a lottery would be directed toward youth mental health programs.