The gavel fell June 1 on the 2021 session of the Nevada Legislature, with several contentious measures clearing the Democrat-majority chambers in party-line votes and others getting through with help from a handful of GOP […]
Teachers are pushing hard to let Nevada voters decide whether the state’s mining corporations should pay more in taxes to support education, but proposals for ballot issues are on hold as the industry maneuvers to […]
A proposed ballot measure that would increase Nevada’s mining tax rate to help fund education would collapse rural economies and strain the state’s social safety net, according to an industry official. “We‘re willing to have […]
Since Dec. 21, about 500 people have signed up for Talkspace, a digital mental health therapy system provided by the City of Reno. That leaves about 200,000 residents also eligible for the free service. City […]
When the Nevada Legislature convenes Feb. 1, lawmakers will be walking on a budget tightrope, balancing efforts maintain state services, expand others and mold a plan for the Silver State’s presumed long and painful emergence […]
Supporters of a petition drive to recall Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, who have until Dec. 3 to collect enough signatures to qualify the petition for the ballot, are scrambling to amass as many names as […]
There is no evidence that a single Washoe County corpse voted by mail in Nevada’s 2020 election — or, in person, for that matter. By cross-checking Social Security death records against the names on more […]
From Canada, France, Hungary and points across the globe — via email and the postal service — the ballots of American expatriates arrive daily at the Washoe County Registrar of Voters office. This year, if […]
Patricia Degives-Mas of Reno was suspicious when a woman knocked on her door the evening of Oct. 29 to tell her that her Washoe County mail-in ballot had been declared invalid because it lacked her […]
Three Washoe County commissioners, without consulting experts or hearing any public comment, approved a plan for a 20-ton concrete monument to be built on county-owned property between two of downtown Reno’s most historic buildings. That […]
Local sponsors hope to install what are touted as inscribed replicas of the nation’s three founding documents – the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – on public land in Washoe […]
Never, ever trust a robot on the phone. That’s particularly timely advice this month. The number of so-called “robocall” scams have soared in Nevada as conmen hitch their come-ons to the COVID-19 pandemic and election […]
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