William Pyatt was 14 back in 1954 he sat with his mother in the jam-packed Civic Center in Hawthorne to hear then U.S. Sen. Pat McCarran speak. Moments after his remarks, the lawmaker walked down the stairs from the front of the stage and collapsed on the main floor.
First official water forecast for the Colorado River of 2017 predicts lake’s surface will fall another 9 feet by year’s end, but recent storms in Rockies may improve picture.
While they could have marched at a sister event in Las Vegas, some 300 Nevadans are on their way to the nation’s capital to raise their concerns within earshot of President Donald Trump on Saturday.
Steve Mnuchin, tapped to be Treasury Secretary, was grilled Thursday over OneWest Bank’s involvement in Nevada’s housing market crash.
It’s been a rough month for Nevada’s medical marijuana program. After taking the site down for cybersecurity risks for twice since Dec. 8, state officials on Thursday restored the medical marijuana portal.
A review of a privately operated foster care agency in Las Vegas released to state lawmakers on Wednesday found that the business needs to make “substantial improvements” to ensure the safety of children in its care.
Supporters of the state’s Education Savings Account program were buoyed by Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposal to fund the controversial law with $60 million for the next two years. But the next step might prove difficult.
The state Department of Health and Human Services overpaid between $3.5 million and $4.3 million to providers to individuals with intellectual disabilities, a state audit has found.
Local education officials are still vowing to push for a fully weighted student funding formula from the state, despite an additional $107 million that Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget proposal would include for certain student categories.
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said Wednesday she will oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s designee to head the Department of Education because of a lack of experience.
The number of House Democrats who’ve said they will boycott the inauguration approached 60 Wednesday afternoon. More than one in four of House Democrats plans to skip the event.
Free community college might be on the horizon for Nevada students as Sen. Mo Denis, D-Las Vegas, plans to submit a bill draft request patterned after the Tennessee Promise Program.
An audit of Nevada’s more than $160 million a year class size reduction program in public schools showed the funds were used appropriately to reach targeted pupil-teacher ratios.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, in his Tuesday night State of the State address, referred to the $115 million in new investment for the Nevada System of Higher Education as “strategic.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday outlined a final proposed two-year budget that has something for just about everyone, from $60 million for the controversial education savings accounts to $26 million in new money for UNLV’s fledgling medical school.
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