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Nevada prison system facing $53M budget hole as overtime costs spiral

The budget hole means that the Legislature will now have to come up with enough money to fix the shortfall in just three months.

Here’s how Lombardo proposes fixing Nevada’s housing affordability crisis

In this week’s Behind the Bar: We explain Lombardo’s housing bill, and how lawmakers propose vastly expanding a narrow state paid family leave requirement.

David Potts is treated by James Flanagin, the only dentist in Leslie, Arkansas.

With few dentists and fluoride under siege, rural America risks new surge of tooth decay

In Nevada, Storey, Lyon and Pershing counties are among those with a dire shortage of dentists and largely unfluoridated drinking water, a KFF Health News analysis shows.

Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Mark Amodei speak at a town hall in Reno.

Did Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei last host a town hall for the general public in 2017?

We check the facts on this claim circulating on Reddit.

A WestJet Airlines flight prepares to land at McCarran (now Harry Reid) International Airport in Las Vegas.

Whoa Canada. Slowdown in north of the border visitation to Las Vegas worries analysts

In this week’s Indy Gaming, we explore how the trade war with Canada is hurting visitation to the Strip. Also, casino revenue slipped in February.

Sunrise hospital prepares for COVID in Las Vegas on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. (Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent).

Nevada may save money on Medicaid because immigrants are afraid to use it, state says

Over the next two years, Nevada Medicaid expects there to be a 15 percent reduction in Medicaid caseloads from mixed-status families because of “increased federal scrutiny.” Lawfully present immigrants — including asylum seekers and green card holders — have been allowed to enroll in Medicaid since the ‘90s.

Protesters rally for abortion rights on the Alabama Capitol steps.

Alabama can’t prosecute groups helping people travel out of state for abortions

The decision — one of the first to explicitly address abortion-related travel — marks a significant victory for abortion providers and supporters.

Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony during a press conference inside the Capitol.

Nevada board moves to limit transgender athletes in school sports

Under the new policy, student athletes would be required to complete a medical form that includes signatures from the student, parent and a medical provider verifying the accuracy of the student’s birth sex.

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A burned Tesla vehicle at a collision center in Las Vegas that also has been vandalized.

Man suspected of setting fire to Tesla vehicles in Las Vegas will remain jailed until trial

Authorities say Kim threw Molotov cocktails at vehicles and fired several gunshots in a Tesla service center's parking lot early March 18. No one was injured.

Henderson home owner Michael Chin-Sang, right, watches while volunteers from the nonprofit Rebuilding Together Southern Nevada cleans up his front yard.

Feds leaving nonprofits behind? Nevada lawmaker wants state to step in.

In this edition of Behind the Bar, legislators want to protect workers from wildfire smoke and push use-it-or-lose-it broadband funding out the door.

The Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas on Dec 13, 2021. (Joey Lovato/The Nevada Independent)

Nevada to now require parental notification for minors' abortions after court lifts 40-year pause

Nevada's long-dormant law requiring minors to give parental notification before undergoing an abortion will go into effect at the end of the month, after a federal judge lifted a federal injunction that prevented the law from ever being enforced.

Virgin Hotels Las Vegas President Cliff Atkinson stands in the property's sportsbook.

With strike settled, Virgin Las Vegas shifts focus to becoming a ‘fully integrated resort’

The hotel and casino are no longer separate businesses at the off-Strip resort that used March Madness to tip off its new structure.

Marty O'Donnell is running for Congressional District 3 in the Republican primary.

GOP video game composer Marty O'Donnell announces another run at Susie Lee's seat

O’Donnell ran in the crowded Republican primary for Congressional District 3 seat in 2024 but came in fourth with 21 percent of the vote.

Itzel Zambrano, right, a student from the Green Biz Kids club at Empire Elementary School in Carson City,

After expanding to 250 schools, Nevada nonprofit pushes for more school gardens

This week's Indy Education newsletter highlights a bill that would provide $4 million to support school gardens statewide, and a bill that would protect the rights of students with disabilities.

Assm. Linda Hunt (D-North Las Vegas) poses for a portrait inside the Legislature in Carson City.

Freshman Orientation: 45-year Culinary Union career guided Linda Hunt to the Legislature

Hunt, who works as a server and enjoys striking up conversations with people from all walks of life, won a competitive Democratic primary to represent her North Las Vegas district.

The South Beach apartments under construction in the southwest part of Las Vegas

Follow the Money: Real estate, development groups gave record $1.8M to Nevada legislators

It is the second straight cycle where the industry was the second-highest category of donor to state lawmakers, slotting in behind gaming groups, but this year’s haul had much more of a Republican lean than the 2022 cycle.

A rendering of the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno with the planned 10,600-seat sports arena, a new hotel tower and other non-gaming amenities.

Grand Sierra Resort quietly seeks public financing, legislative help for basketball arena

The company did not mention it wanted taxpayer help at a public event in 2023. Competitors think the area isn’t blighted enough to warrant redevelopment funds.

Gov. Joe Lombardo speaks during a rally in support of opportunity scholarships at St. Anne Catholic School in Las Vegas.

Indy Explains: What are open enrollment policies, and what do Nevada lawmakers want to change?

Gov. Joe Lombardo is taking a new approach to fulfill his school choice agenda, while a bill by a Democrat would standardize existing policies.

The Walker River flows through the Walker River Paiute Reservation on its way to Walker Lake.

Trump's anti-DEI push suspends $20M grant for a Nevada tribe's water infrastructure

On March 7, the Nevada Clean Energy Fund (NCEF) — the lead applicant on the grant — discovered it could no longer access the $20 million fund. Three days later on March 10, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced he was cancelling more than $1.7 billion worth of “DEI and Environmental Justice” grants, as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) efforts to cut government spending and compliance with Trump’s executive order to eliminate DEI across the government.

A school bus at Schurz Elementary School on the Walker River Paiute Tribe reservation.

How Nevada programs are faring the wake of Trump admin's cuts, cancellations

After more than two months into the Trump administration, we’re starting to see the impacts of the funding cuts, cancellations and rescissions pursued by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).