While coming large-scale lithium mines and their future employees will bring revenue and jobs to rural Nevada communities hungry for an economic jolt, they’ll also bring growing pains. Rural counties will be on the hook to come up with the money to fund critical infrastructure and other expenses — but, with proceeds from the mines not reaching the counties until production is underway, those same counties have limited ways to prepare or pay for expenses in advance.

The BEAD program has come under fire from both sides of the aisle recently as an example of the slowness of bureaucracy, because 3 ½ years after its passage, zero miles of broadband infrastructure have been built with these funds.

On March 7, the Nevada Clean Energy Fund (NCEF) — the lead applicant on the grant — discovered it could no longer access the $20 million fund. Three days later on March 10, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced he was cancelling more than $1.7 billion worth of “DEI and Environmental Justice” grants, as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) efforts to cut government spending and compliance with Trump’s executive order to eliminate DEI across the government.

The Trump administration’s cancellation of two programs that allowed states to purchase fresh food from local farmers for use in schools and food banks has left the Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) millions of dollars short in anticipated funding and has imperiled the Home Feeds Nevada program.

The old Nishikida laundry building in Gardnerville holds ties to the detainment of Japanese Americans during World War II and is one of the state’s rare properties associated with Nevada’s Japanese American heritage.

Hoping to comply with federal law, the state committed more than $200 million to overhaul a children’s behavioral health system that ranked last in the nation.

Nevada has nowhere to go but up on youth mental health services. A lack of sustainable funding has prevented a more unified network of care.

As of 2023, nearly 86.9 percent of the state’s population lives in a federally designated mental health professional shortage area.

Since 2010, young people aged 15-24 have the highest rate of suicide attempts of any other age group in the Silver State.

On Wednesday, the sheriff's office issued a news release saying two women and a man had been arrested and booked into jail.

In a nondescript patch of high desert north of Lovelock, nestled between two dry creek beds, the only indication of where a 60-foot impact crater once was is a patch of tall grass standing out amidst the sagebrush.

Nevada's farmers are aging, the number of small-to-medium-sized growers is declining and farmland in the state is being developed into industrial spaces and housing.

Nevada is set to receive $416 million to build out broadband networks that target the least-served areas first. It’s a huge tranche of funds — the single largest broadband investment in U.S. history — that has accelerated the state’s timeline for ensuring every Nevadan has access to affordable, high-speed internet. The grant is expected to close the gap for the nearly 100,000 Nevadans and Tribal natives in the state without access to standard-speed internet and boost broadband capacity across every county in the state.

Freshman Assemblyman Gregory Koenig is sponsoring AB277. It  would provide an extra safety net for rural health care facilities across Nevada by designating them as “emergency rural hospitals.”

“Becoming a justice of the peace, I know, will be very exciting. And I will go to whatever lengths I have to to make sure that I have all of the knowledge.”

In an August 2021 email to an Elko County deputy district attorney, Steninger laid out the group’s interest in having “the rural counties … announce plans to shift to paper ballots,” which they believed would make the rest of the state “obliged to follow suit.”

Rural voters could still prove pivotal in an election that remains within the polling margin of error, with a strong — or weak — rural performance changing the dynamics in urban Clark or Washoe counties. 

Richard Cusolito believes he’s saving lives by distributing clean syringes and needles to people who use drugs in this rural area of northeastern Nevada — but he knows some residents disagree.

Marchant said his plan with Kampf involves using “paper ballots with anti-counterfeit measures,” conducting voting and counting “on a precinct-level basis” and livestreaming — though he did not specify what would be streamed. 

Visitors may soon have a new reason to stop in Tonopah — Stash Fine Cannabis Company plans to bring a “farmer’s market” experience to customers in the town of 2,100, providing cannabis products.