Nevada Current

As Nevadans struggle to afford rising costs and skyrocketing rents, minimum wage workers will receive a slight bump in their pay. 

Environmental advocates are pointing to a report warning that flawed analysis of the mine may lead to failures that could unleash toxic slurry into the state’s watershed.

The state of Nevada needs to have authority to “say no” to projects that will drive species extinct.

Tribal leaders from Nevada and across the country will have direct access to advising the U.S. Department of the Interior for the first time in history with the creation of a tribal advisory panel.

Families interested in helping foster children can learn how Saturday, June 25 at a community forum in Pahrump.

Nevada will be receiving a total of $1.5M for projects across the state meant to fund sagebrush habitats in an effort to combat invasive grasses and wildfire, protect wetlands, and support the regional economy.

Now that Cortez Masto’s opponent in November has been decided, her supporters are wasting no time turning up the heat on Laxalt.  

Attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity and the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe  previously succeeded in getting a district judge to temporarily pause construction of the project, but the ruling was later overturned. 

The federal agency in charge of managing much of the West’s water warned Tuesday that it will act unilaterally to reduce water usage in the Colorado River Basin if state and tribal leaders can’t reach an agreement this summer.

Less than four months after announcing the intention to extend tariffs on most solar panels imported from four Southeast Asian nations, President Joe Biden this week announced tariffs on the products would be paused for two years.