By Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO — U.S. land managers have withdrawn more than 500 square miles (1,295 sq. kilometers) of public land from a swath of eastern Nevada where […]
News
Citing Security, Nevada Keeps Dams’ Emergency Plans Secret
By Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO — Nevada keeps emergency response plans for potential dam failures secret for the same reason the U.S. government refuses the state’s demands for information […]
Nevada Tribes Slam State for Scrubbing Native History Document from Web
By Benjamin Spillman Reno Gazette Journal The Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’s decision to remove from its website a document about a sacred American Indian site is drawing […]
Open Enrollment Begins on Nevada’s New State-based Exchange Platform
By Megan MesserlyThe Nevada Independent The biggest test for Nevada’s health insurance exchange begins today. The exchange is launching — for the second time in its six-year history — a […]
Las Vegas Weighs Law to Make Sleeping on the Streets Illegal
By Ken Ritter Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Facing protests about a “war on the poor,” Las Vegas officials were considering a law Wednesday that would make it illegal to […]
Another Horse Gathered Plan
The Bureau of Land Management’s Bristlecone and Caliente field offices, in conjunction with the Basin and Range National Monument, will begin a wild horse gather on or about November 11 […]
Around the State
No Bomb Found Following Evacuation at Reno Courthouses RENO — Sheriff deputies found no explosives after a bomb scare in downtown Reno forced the evacuation of two courthouses and shut […]
Dems in Congress Demand Update on Interior Wild Horse Plans
By Scott SonnerAssociated Press RENO — Congressional Democrats are demanding the Interior Department produce an overdue report on plans to manage wild horses roaming federal lands in the West after […]
Eureka Students Enjoy 2nd Annual Fishing Day
Some of the nearly 75 Eureka Elementary School children squealed as Joe Doucette, conservation educator with the Nevada Department of Wildlife, dropped an earthworm into his mouth. “If it tastes […]
Record Cold Temps in Eureka
Record cold weather is gripping much of Northern Nevada where overnight lows dropped below zero and a freeze warning was in effect through Thursday for parts of southern Nevada, including […]


