Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced Tuesday afternoon that mask mandates will be returning to 12 of Nevada’s 17 counties due to the rise in transmission of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus.

Republican John Kovacs on Friday announced plans to run for southern Nevada battleground congressional district in 2022.

The Minden town siren has blared since 1921. Until 1974, it served as a warning to non-white people that they were required to leave town before the sun faded behind the rugged mountaintops of the Carson range.

The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and a group of Paiute and Shoshone people from the Fort McDermmitt and Duck Valley reservations calling themselves Atsa koodakuh wyh Nuwu, or People of Red Mountain, filed a motion with the court last week. They are alleging the BLM violated the National Historic Preservation Act in permitting the planned mine.

Clark County is reporting hundreds of new COVID-19 cases each day and the area comprises most of the state’s deaths from the disease.

A bill just introduced in the U.S. Senate would help thousands of species stay off the Endangered Species List – including bighorn sheep, golden eagles and the Lahontan cutthroat trout in Nevada.

Nevada’s State Fire Marshal Division said it will host a Fire Prevention Week poster contest for students in first through 12th grades.

Researchers from University of Nevada Reno and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will share expertise in joint research initiatives through a new partnership announced this week.

Chancellor Melody Rose of Nevada’s System of Higher Education issued a memo Wednesday that NSHE employees must comply with new mask policies issued by the Clark County Board of Commissioners this week.

Nevada Army Guard helicopter pilot Chief Warrant Officer 4 Kevin Keeler will be recognized this week after locating a missing firefighter on the Bootleg Fire in Oregon.

The 152nd Airlift Wing of the Nevada Air National Guard has been helping battle massive fires throughout the Western United States and will now be staying on the task at least through Aug. 26.

U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei said Tuesday that he hasn’t decided whether to run for reelection or mount a bid for Nevada governor.