The Battle Mountain District Office (BMDO) is planning to conduct prescribed burning activities during the months of February through March 2023 in the Lockes Pond and Big Well Units of the Railroad Valley Wildlife Management Area.
More than four-hundred miles away from Carson City where lawmakers kicked off the first day of the 2023 legislative session, the Clark County Education Association (CCEA) called for improvements in school funding, teacher vacancies and school safety, but also for better school performance within a year.
A decade after then-Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto led a push to ensure Nevada law outlawed sex trafficking, at least four lawmakers plan to continue the fight against illegal sex work during the upcoming legislative session.
Gov. Joe Lombardo announced an audit of Nevada’s 17 public school districts and charter school authority as part of a surprise executive order issued on Monday afternoon. The move comes after the Republican governor had called for increased “accountability and transparency” for the state’s K-12 school system on the campaign trail and as part of his State of the State address.
With President Joe Biden likely to announce his re-election campaign in coming months, a new Nevada Independent / OH Predictive Insights poll finds him trailing both former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The poll found DeSantis with a sizable lead over Biden – 42 percent of Nevada voters would vote for the Floridian expected to challenge Trump for the Republican presidential nomination and 36 percent would commit to Biden.
Gov. Joe Lombardo plans to propose lifting a cap on wages for state employees and creating new cabinet-level secretary positions within the governor’s office to coordinate with executive branch departments, the governor’s chief of staff Ben Kieckhefer told The Nevada Independent Tuesday. The salary cap outlined in state law stipulates state employees can only make up to 95 percent of the salary of the governor, or about $155,000.
Despite the inflation that has caused the prices of housing, gas, groceries and just about everything else to rise, Social Security for senior citizens remains predominantly fixed. Living on a fixed income creates very serious issues for senior citizens, especially in rural areas where resources can be scant.
A U.S. district court judge upheld the federal government’s decision to approve the Thacker Pass lithium mine north of Winnemucca after a permit issued in 2020 faced three legal challenges from conservationists, Indigenous communities and a local rancher. The decision came Monday, Feb. 6. Judge Miranda M. Du found the U.S. Bureau of Land Management generally did not err in approving the permit for the massive lithium mine but asked the agency to revisit one section of the environmental analysis upon which the decision was based. The ruling could pave the way for the mine to proceed and does not undo the federal permitting as challengers hoped.
Lowry High School students competed in the Northeast Regional Welding Competition held at the Great Basin Community College Elko Campus on Sat., Feb. 4.
Through the noble efforts of the Lowry High School (LHS) Stagecraft and Drama Club, fellow students, and other community members, $1,382 was raised towards 15 year-old LHS student Joseph Esquibel’s cancer treatment at LHS’s talent show, Lowry’s Got Talent on Feb.1.
Driving down Haskell Street and seeing the local military hero banners displayed on the light posts is always special, but many of the posts are currently sitting empty.
On Friday, January 27, 2023, around midday, Officers from the Winnemucca Police Department received a call for service regarding a deceased horse. A local woman had gone to feed her horse in the area of South Highland Drive and found it deceased from what appeared to be an altercation with dogs. Officers were quickly able to determine the two dogs who had been involved as their owner had reported them missing earlier in the day and another citizen had reported seeing them running down another street covered in blood.
Developers and community leaders at both ends of Nevada need a federal-lands bill — or at least an updated version of one already on the books — to proceed with expansion plans, U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei said recently on Nevada Newsmakers. Yet Amodei said his efforts to transfer federal lands for local and municipal development is being thwarted by an unelected staffer on a powerful committee in the U.S. Senate who does not like transfers of federal land.
January 31 marked the official end of Humboldt County Sheriff Angel Cardenas’ first month serving as the Sheriff and the adjustment from working as a deputy has been both challenging and interesting. Cardenas said “[Being Sheriff] has been awesome. There’s been so many meetings to attend and there’s so many things to learn and emails, well, you can never get caught up on emails!”
Northern Nevada economists and economic development experts on Thursday forecast a recession even as they touted the strength of the region’s diversification over the past decade — including the announcement this week of Tesla’s $3.6 billion expansion. “I don't expect it to be long, I do not expect it to be deep, but I would not be surprised if we do see some of that correction,” Brian Gordon, a principal at the firm Applied Analysis, told The Nevada Independent.