Meta also agreed to pay states even more — Nevada would receive a total of $261 million — if its competitors in the social media industry enter similar agreements.

As Nevada school districts continue to confront budget challenges driven in part by enrollment declines, candidates for the school boards leading two of the state's largest districts shared their visions of how to help public schools navigate that storm. 

Candidates expressed some different positions. Some Democrats were more open to changing laws on energy and water use, while Republicans think federal regulation should ensure that the U.S. is able to compete with China.

Nevada's lawsuit comes after states and the federal government have been in tense negotiations over how to manage the Colorado River after current guidelines expire at the end of this year.

The company's little-discussed expansion into schools has raised concerns about privacy, including for youth. Emails show a push to keep adding new features.

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Ford's office declined more than half of fraud referrals from Medicaid. The governor hopeful says his prosecution rate is high and many complaints aren't solid enough to pursue.

The lawsuit challenges the record of decision released Friday, which governs how Colorado River water is divided among the seven basin states. Under the decision, Nevada's 300,000-acre-foot allocation could be cut by up to 213,556 acre-feet.

After a series of catastrophic blazes in the early 1900s, the U.S. Forest Service mandated the "10 a.m. rule," declaring that wildland fires should be put out by 10 a.m. the day after they were reported. The plan backfired, leaving forests with debris that fueled more dangerous fires.

Fast-moving fires have burned millions of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in the West, including hundreds of thousands of acres in Nevada. The Indy partnered with five other nonprofit newsrooms in the West to show how on-the-ground changes made by the Trump administration have affected the ability to fight fires amid increasingly destructive conditions. 

In a typical year, fires break out in different parts of the West at different times so resources can shift from one to the next without every state needing help simultaneously. This year, fires were burning across the region at the same time, leaving little slack anywhere.

New data shows homelessness across Nevada is increasing, although more slowly in Washoe County than in Clark County. Nearly 3 in 5 of the homeless residents counted in Clark in 2026 were unsheltered.