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Rural Nevadans hate data centers. So why are their local governments doubling down on them?

A vote by one rural county's board of commissioners raises the question of whether data centers belong on Nevada's farmland.

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What's inside Rosen's new Pershing County lands bill?

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) introduced a lands bill for Pershing County on Tuesday, that would privatize public land for economic development — including mining — while adding conservation protections to other parcels in the area.

For rural papers as old as Nevada itself, a fight for survival in digital age

In January, The Ely Times and The Eureka Sentinel, Eastern Nevada's legacy papers and among the oldest surviving papers in Nevada, announced a verbal deal to transfer the papers to a new owner, who is moving the publications from print to a fully digital platform to help cut costs and keep the two papers afloat.