The Reno City Council voted unanimously Friday night to appoint attorney Devon Reese to fill an open seat on the seven-member board. The vacancy was created in mid-January when then-Councilman David Bobzien took a position to lead Gov. Steve Sisolak’s energy office.

A long-stalled proposal to require background checks on almost all private gun sales and transfers will finally be implemented next year after a marathon week of debate in the Legislature concluded with Gov. Steve Sisolak signing it into law on Friday.

An average of nearly 600 people who served more than a year in prison attempt to buy a firearm and are rejected every year because of the state’s background check system, according to data from the Nevada Department of Public Safety. And over the last six years, an average of 319 people previously convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence and 46 people with restraining orders were prevented from buying a gun from a licensed dealer.

Where water is scarce and becoming scarcer in the West, any added supply is valuable. That’s why Nevada water managers see cloud seeding as one potential tool to offset the drought.

Nevada may soon join a handful of states in paying for donor breast milk for low birth weight babies on Medicaid, though the proposal comes with a hefty price tag.

Freshman Democrat who succeeds Democratic Assemblywoman Amber Joiner, who did not seek re-election in 2018. Peters represents the heavily-Democratic-leaning District 24, which includes parts of downtown and midtown Reno.

According to data provided by the Nevada Department of Public Safety, an average of nearly 2,000 attempted firearm purchases from federally-licensed sellers have been blocked each year since 2012. But background check rejections have made up a small percentage of the total number of checks completed statewide, ranging between 1.5 to 2.7 percent of all checks conducted by the department every year.

A bill to expand gun background checks is expected to continue its brisk flight through the Legislature on Thursday, the one-year anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, while lawmakers consider proposals on a range of other topics.