Nevada correctional officers file to collectively bargain, first group of state workers to do so after 2019 law

Teachers’ anger over an ongoing contract dispute rooted in promised pay raises boiled over during a public meeting Thursday evening that the Clark County School Board of Trustees ultimately cut short.

A capstone bill to expand tenants’ rights was among the most controversial of the 2019 session, and triggered a coordinated backlash campaign that tried — unsuccessfully — to pressure Gov. Steve Sisolak to veto the measure.

The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services is threatening to levy nearly $20 million in fines on more than two dozen drug manufacturers that have yet to submit cost and profit reports to the state as required by a 2017 law aimed at better understanding the rising costs of treating diabetes.

The analysis of government and proprietary data was commissioned by RapidVisa, a Las Vegas-based online visa processing service, and released on Thursday. Company founder Ben Ives said that although there’s been much public discussion about changing family-oriented immigration, often referred to pejoratively as chain migration, actual changes have been less pronounced.

This week's Indy Environment newsletter looks at a decision to increase fees for private Lake Tahoe homeowners who want to place piers or buoys on state-managed public land. It also looks at legal efforts to undo the Trump administration's final rule revising the Endangered Species Act.

Gov. Steve Sisolak and legislative leadership met with Clark County Superintendent Jesus Jara and John Vellardita, executive director of the Clark County Education Association, Wednesday afternoon amid a contract dispute and looming threat of a teacher strike.

More than two dozen California legislators sent a letter to Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson on Monday urging the state to adopt new laws restricting gun access, including a ban on assault weapons and prohibiting gun sales to people younger than age 21. The letter comes weeks after a 19-year-old gunman legally bought a semiautomatic rifle in Fallon less than three weeks before his July 28 attack at the Gilroy Garlic festival that killed 3 people and wounded 13.

Family planning providers are grappling with new Trump administration rules that some say will prevent Nevadans from obtaining timely access to care and limit the ability of clinics to provide other services to pregnant women.