A group of residents submitted a referendum petition Tuesday morning to ban brothels within Nye County limits, inspired by a similar measure filed earlier this month in Lyon County.

Nevada’s top two Democratic candidates for governor say they oppose a major energy ballot initiative in 2018, despite both voting for it in the previous election.

Rep. Mark Amodei says he was aghast at what former FBI Director James Comey said about President Trump ahead of the release of Comey’s tell-all book, but the Nevada congressman noted that he didn’t hear anything that was criminal.

Candidates for Nevada’s four congressional seats and U.S. Senate seat reported their fundraising totals and spending over the first three months of 2018 on Monday, the Federal Election Commission’s filing deadline for quarterly campaign finance reports.

The Upper Colorado River Commission said the actions of one Arizona water agency could threaten efforts to conserve water and prevent Lake Mead from going into shortage for as long as possible. It could, they wrote, also undermine a decade of broader collaboration intended to avoid costly litigation between Colorado River users.

A revised count of signatures on a petition to recall a Democratic state senator will still fall just short of qualifying for a special election.

Crescent Peak Renewables, LLC, a large-scale wind project, wants to site about 160 turbines in an area of the Mojave Desert that environmentalists, who are pushing to get federal protections for the region, want to protect. The dispute between environmentalists and clean energy companies — natural allies on issues like climate change — reflects a broader tension about where to build renewable projects.

State officials said this week that at least ten workers in the building have filed initial workers compensation claims related to respiratory and other symptoms, and that a new report by an internal medical specialist received last week found likely traces of the water-loving mold in the 22-year-old building.

Southern Nevada students still have six more weeks before summer, but the Clark County School District is already reminding parents to enroll their children for next year.