Nevada

Nevada’s unemployment rates continue to improve according to the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation’s (DETR) May 2021 economic report.

As the focus on infrastructure funding continues to grow nationally and at the state level, groundwater associations are asking to be included in legislation.

Make no mistake: Abandoned mines and hot springs present very real dangers.

Gov. Steve Sisolak today announced Vax Nevada Days, a promotion to give away $5 million in cash and prizes to nearly 2,000 Nevada residents who have initiated the COVID-19 vaccine process.

Some local government agencies are observing Juneteenth—the holiday commemorating the day enslaved Black people in Texas learned of their emancipation on June 19, 1865.

The director of University of Nevada, Reno Extension, Ivory Lyles, has been selected to lead a national committee tasked with supporting cooperative extension programs across the country.

UNR doctoral student Tracy Shane recently began a project using cutting-edge technology to see how sheep and cattle grazing might help control cheatgrass.

Gov. Steve Sisolak on Thursday signed legislation that keys in on several elements of President Biden’s infrastructure plan–clean energy and jobs.

Climatologist Tim Brown of the Western Regional Climate Center will discuss the impacts of climate and weather on fire in the fourth session of the Living With Fire Virtual Series.

Beekeepers and educators at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Extension said this week that swarm season is here.