Nevada Current

The Biden administration will use $3 billion from last year’s infrastructure law to revamp the federal approach to wildfire management.

The Fort Mojave Indian Tribe is one step closer to permanently protecting a sacred swath of land in Nevada after gaining congressional support to designate the landscape as a National Monument. 

The proposed Pine Valley Water Supply Project would pipe water to Cedar City in Iron County, Utah from aquifers east of Nevada’s border.

Nevada is missing its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and is even seeing a reverse of progress, with increased emissions in the transportation, industrial, and residential and commercial sectors.

The Clark County School District Tuesday announced that there will be no school on Friday, Jan. 14 and Tuesday, Jan. 18 “due to the extreme staffing shortages based on the high number of positive COVID-19 cases.”

The Nevada Department of Corrections announced Monday it has suspended visitation statewide following hundreds of positive Covid cases among corrections staff and those incarcerated. 

Amazon, Walmart and Clark County School District topped the list of employers with the most workers enrolled in Nevada Medicaid.

The Nevada State Infrastructure Bank Board on Wednesday proposed a spending plan for its $75 million including charter schools and affordable housing.

A Nevada tribe succeeded Tuesday in getting a district judge to temporarily pause construction of a planned geothermal energy project near the Dixie Meadows Hot Springs, a site considered sacred to the tribe.

Nevada’s Tribal fish hatcheries are facing new challenges: invasive species like the destructive quagga and zebra mussels.