Renewable energy advocates have long held that Nevada’s net metering program for rooftop solar customers is a great deal not only for the environment, but also for Nevadans’ pocketbooks.

A fundraising event with President Donald Trump last month helped net nearly a half million dollars to boost the campaign of Republican Sen. Dean Heller.

The struggle for water at Coyote Springs, a proposed master-planned community about 60 miles outside of Las Vegas in the undisturbed and disconnected desert, was reignited this year when Nevada’s top water regulator said he was unlikely to approve subdivision maps for residential units.

With little fanfare or attention, a conservative-leaning Nevada dark money group is pushing to change the state’s voter registration balance ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

If Illinois Rep. John Shimkus has his way, life — the human kind — will come to Yucca Mountain not as it did in the 1990s to construct an experimental facility but to turn the site into a long-term nuclear waste repository that will receive shipments of radioactive waste from 121 sites spanning 39 states.

Assemblyman Mike Sprinkle made national headlines last year after the Legislature approved a bill to allow all Nevadans to buy into a state-sponsored Medicaid-esque health insurance plan, a proposal that earned the tongue-in-cheek nickname “Sprinklecare” at the time.

In a brightly lit room, workers donning head-to-toe protective clothing — white jumpsuits, blue bouffant caps, surgical masks, booties and gloves — huddle over tables lined with trays. The environment could pass as a research lab or sterile-processing center deep inside a bustling hospital, but it’s neither. The trays contain the mission behind this quiet room: Seeds.

The statewide task force charged with bolstering school safety unveiled initial recommendations Friday, but there’s still one big unknown — the price tag. The 25-member School Safety Task Force settled on a list of bill draft requests, which will be forwarded to Gov. Brian Sandoval by August. Most fell under the umbrella of student well-being and physical infrastructure and, in the process, touched on prevention, crisis and recovery responses.

A congressional field trip to Yucca Mountain drew fire from most of the Nevada delegation, as House and Senate appropriators prepare to reconcile differences in the Department of Energy budget, including whether to provide funding for the proposed nuclear waste repository.