The $2.8 million spent on lobbying activities in 2021 marked the first time since 2005 that spending dipped below $3 million, and represented roughly 72 percent of lobbying expenditures reported during the 2019 session.

"Today's vote aligns resources, expertise and facilities with the needs of our homeless population," Reno Councilwoman Neoma Jardon said.

The conflicting messaging from Northern Nevada’s two most prominent municipal elected officials highlights just how politicized health policy and pandemic decision-making has become.

But even with more stringent steps to combat the pandemic local governments have had widely divergent responses to the situation.

Lyon County commissioners voted 3-2 on Thursday to rename the county’s justice complex after former President Donald Trump.

Elko County commissioners passed a resolution on Wednesday prohibiting the use of “vaccine passports” by any county agency and strongly discouraging the use of such passports by other agencies and businesses in the county.

The new mask mandate will apply to all businesses in incorporated cities and unincorporated parts of the county and takes effect at the stroke of midnight on Thursday.

Clark County commissioners will meet in an emergency session on Tuesday afternoon to discuss putting in place new pandemic mitigation measures as COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the region.

Less than five years after the Raiders convinced Southern Nevada to help build the NFL team a $1.9 billion stadium, baseball's Oakland A's are exploring a similar move and request.

“The issue has been that the free-and-reduced lunch data we collect… is also used for a lot of other things, including grants and Title I,” said Pete Etchart, chief operating officer for Washoe County School District.

Clark County commissioner Jim Gibson encouraged Nevadans to take advantage of the ongoing hiring rush. “People have to be accountable for themselves,” he said. “It’s not like these jobs will be around forever.”

Tribal leaders and the town of Minden announced on Wednesday an agreement to change the time of the daily ‘sundown siren’ once used as a warning for people of color to leave town by nightfall and that has drawn renewed attention amid measures passed by the 2021 Legislature.

“Starting today, we are also going to take the innovative and pragmatic step of actively measuring our carbon footprint so we can use this real time information to understand our actual impact,” Sisolak said in a statement to The Nevada Independent. “This is how we fight climate change and protect our state.”

The state Supreme Court Thursday upheld a 15-vote victory last November by now-Clark County Commissioner Ross Miller, denying the legal challenge by former Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony, who was seeking a new election.

During its hearing in the Assembly Committee of Revenue on Tuesday, comments from lobbyist Mary Walker in neutral testimony, representing Carson, Douglas, Lyon and Storey counties sparked a conversation about tax revenue and future growth concerns in Storey County — the likely location of any Innovation Zone, as the concept backers Blockchains Inc. owns about 67,000 acres of land and spearheaded efforts in favor of the concept earlier this year. Blockchains did not testify in the committee hearing.

Clark County’s CARES Housing Assistance Program (CHAP) has helped another 1,500 households pay rent and other bills in the past month, although it is falling short of the pace program administrators had projected in late March.

AB363, sponsored by Assemblywoman Rochelle Nguyen (D-Las Vegas) and heard Thursday in the Assembly Revenue Committee, would establish requirements, rules, enforcement mechanisms and tax collection methods for short-term rentals brokered by companies such as AirBnB, Vrbo and other third-party services that rent out rooms, apartments and homes for a short period of time.

So what could tenants and landlords experience during the three-month extension of the federal moratorium, which lifts June 30 (an additional layer of state protections were extended through May)? The Indy explains.

Lee made the announcement during an appearance on Fox and Friends early Tuesday, saying the state Democratic Party’s recent leadership takeover by members of the Democratic Socialists of America had convinced him to finally switch political parties.

Storey County commissioners voted to oppose “separatist governing control” within their jurisdiction after Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak backed a legislative effort that could result in a private technology company and major donor forming its own local government.