Federal health authorities are telling Nevada to reverse course on the state’s recent decision to ban two types of rapid COVID-19 tests used in nursing homes.
Bill Dentzer
State government and politics reporter
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Based in Reno, Bill Dentzer covers government and politics and related state news out of the Review-Journal’s capital bureau in Carson City. He joined the RJ in October 2018 after similar assignments at the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah and the Idaho Statesman in Boise. He earlier covered state and local government in his home state of New York, where he graduated from Hamilton College.
The state COVID Task Force Thursday eased two of three criteria used to determine elevated risk of coronavirus spread across Nevada’s 17 counties.
A member of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s Carson City staff tested positive for COVID-19, sending all staffers in the office home to quarantine for a week pending tests of their own.
Incumbent Democratic Assemblywoman Brittney Miller is facing off against Republican challenger Mack Miller, who is not related, in Assembly District 5.
Democratic Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui is facing Republican Erika Smith and Independent American Party member Victoria DaCosta in Nevada Assembly District 41.
Assemblywoman Dina Neal is running for the open Senate seat once represented by former Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson, who resigned in a campaign fundraising scandal.
Democrat Liz Becker is challenging two-term incumbent state Sen. Scott Hammond in Senate District 18. Both are former teachers.
State Sen. Dallas Harris is running for election against self-described “small-government guy,” Republican Josh Dowden.
Republican former Assemblyman Richard McArthur is seeking to return once more to his old Assembly District 4 seat, currently held by Democrat Connie Munk.
Lawmakers on Friday approved $29 million in allocations from Nevada’s reservoir of federal pandemic aid, with $20 million earmarked to help small businesses.
The Nevada DMV is allowing people to renew their drivers licenses online, even those who got a postcard saying they had to come in to an office.
Two marijuana businesses could lose their licenses and be barred from the industry, one for up to 10 years, under the latest round of complaints.
A Carson City judge on Monday sided with Republicans, saying certain portions of two bills passed in 2019 were unconstitutional because they increased state revenue without getting two-thirds support from lawmakers.
A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that sought to invalidate parts of a new elections law approved by the Legislature in a special session this year.