With Hurricane Harvey heading toward the Gulf Coast, Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas have canceled plans to attend the Basque Fry on Saturday in northern Nevada.
Politics and Government
With the passage of Senate Bill 270 in the 2017 legislative session, the state Division of Water Resources must get proof of ownership from Nevadans with water rights that predate state statutes.
Diane Keith, a 26-year National Park Service veteran, will oversee fossil-rich national monument in north Las Vegas Valley.
State lawmakers on Thursday voted to accept $5.9 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for damage from this past winter’s major flooding.
But in ruling against lawsuit filed by local governments, tribes and environmental groups, federal judge orders Bureau of Land Management to develop plan to repair environmental damage caused by the $15 billion project.
A state lawmaker said Thursday that overtime costs being incurred by the Nevada Department of Corrections reached $12.5 million last fiscal year and are unsustainable.
The federal government is demanding $75.5 million in underpaid rent from Clark County for the Bali Hai Golf Club.
The final action on Nevada’s controversial private school choice program came Thursday when the Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee approved $105,000 to pay off the remaining costs incurred by a vendor who was working on the development of software to implement the program.
But Interior secretary says he will urge changes in the boundaries of a handful of the monuments he reviewed, while declining to provide specifics of his report to President Donald Trump.
Nevada’s growing backlog of untested rape kits could shrink significantly thanks to a $4.35 million injection of funding approved Thursday.
The White House is expected to tell the Pentagon in coming days how to implement a ban on transgender people in the military, according to a memo that says the defense secretary may decide whether to remove service members based on their ability to deploy, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
Echoes of the war that U.S. forces fought and won against Nazi Germany rang out in Reno on Wednesday. This time, it was a culture war waged against hate with protests, Twitter hashtags and chants. Along the way, memories of fathers and grandfathers who fought more than seven decades ago were invoked.
Most presidents try not to feud with members of Congress from their own party. But President Donald Trump is known for shredding the rule book, so why would congressional etiquette be any different?
At a Wednesday morning breakfast hosted by the state’s oldest Latino political organization, a local clean energy advocate asked U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., when he’d finally host a town hall sans entrance fee. Heller ignored the question and left the building.
Thursday is the due date for the Trump Administration’s national monument review, but it’s unclear when the public will get to see Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s full slate of recommendations.
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