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The USDA Rural Development Program this week announced a $9.6 million investment in Nevada businesses to help spur new business and grow existing businesses.

A number of contracts approved this week for state highway projects are slated to support 1,125 jobs for a year while improving driver safety and NDOT operations.

At-home COVID-19 tests ordered by the state have begun to arrive, with the first delivery made to Ely on Thursday.

Officials from Tonopah and Ely Bureau of Land Management offices said they’ll begin a massive wild horse gather starting Monday, Jan. 10 covering four herd areas and more than 1.2 million acres.

Ten Nevada hospitals this week received $11.3 million in grants from the Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Rural Healthcare Program.

Lake access at eastern Nevada’s Cave Lake State Park will be closed for close to 18 months while engineers work to restore and repair the Cave Creek Dam.

Nevada officials last week said the state will receive $244,000 to help fund rural distance learning and telemedicine.

Great Basin Institute this week said it has received a $160,000 grant to take the first steps in launching the nation’s only professional recreation trail building school.

An employee of the Ely State Prison was arrested this week after a multi-agency investigation found her to be smuggling methamphetamine into the prison for an inmate.

Nevada Main Street is a program that helps communities revitalize downtown areas to support business creation and retention.