In an Executive Branch Audit Committee meeting in June, then-Lt. Gov. Kate Marshall said she believed the current rate of pay, $24 per day of work, was “a form of enslavement.”

Two weeks after thousands of South Lake Tahoe residents fled their homes, the flames of the Caldor Fire threatening to consume the tourist destination, Stephanie is relieved to be back in her house again.

South Lake Tahoe’s casino market is slowly getting back to business after the Caldor Fire forced a week-long shutdown of gaming and tourism operations.

Sisolak’s office confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the governor plans to make five appointments to the seven-member panel with the intention of restarting meetings. 

District Court Judge Miranda Du again denied a petition to delay preliminary excavations at the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine on Friday.

Monterrosa said the work of photographing fire — and people fleeing for their lives — is physically and emotionally taxing. At the same time, he said he’s feeling even more motivated to cover these disasters.

Officials orchestrated an unprecedented evacuation of South Lake Tahoe as the Caldor Fire spread closer to the lake. For residents, that has brought uncertainty, dislocation and questions about what the future looks like.

"Even within a given setting, such as a city, vulnerability to heat is not equally distributed," stated a forthcoming Guinn Center report.

Operators of the four major casinos in South Lake Tahoe began closing portions of their gaming floors Monday after fire officials in California ordered evacuations of residents all the way up to the Nevada border in response to the fast-spreading Caldor Fire.

Two tribal governments and members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe asked a federal court to issue a preliminary injunction. Such a ruling could halt ground disturbance as the court weighs the merits of the case.

In a statement, Sisolak said his executive order was designed to protect the migration patterns of wildlife species ranging from pronghorn to the sage-grouse.

Nevada and California lawmakers addressed concerns about the growing effects and threats of climate change on the Lake Tahoe region.

Federal officials declared the first-ever shortage on the Colorado River, what experts described as a wake-up call for the roughly 40 million people who rely on it.

Fast-moving wildfires, fueled by high temperatures and drought, have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres in northern California and northern Nevada.

The study found that COVID-19 cases went up by about 18 percent in Reno during the time period most affected by wildfire smoke last year, from Aug. 16 to Oct. 10.

Nevada is one step closer to adopting the vehicle emissions standard proposal announced by Gov. Steve Sisolak last year after reaching a compromise lauded by environmental groups and automakers.

In an order Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Miranda Du wrote that environmental groups did not meet the legal threshold for issuing an injunction to stop preliminary mine work, digging and trenching.

Every summer, skies in the West fill with smoke as fires burn around Nevada and neighboring states.

U.S. District Court Judge Miranda Du’s courtroom was filled to capacity for an important hearing on a lithium project at the center of an energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward electrification.

Top administrators from UNR and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced a new partnership Tuesday afternoon.