Nearly a decade after the state and federal government agreed to keep Nevada's largest abandoned mine off a federal list of highly polluted sites, the mine is almost cleaned up. But now, conversations about reopening the 3,400-acre Anaconda Copper Mine to production are troubling groups that have monitored the defunct property for years.
After failing in 2024 to convince the Elko Planning Commission to approve a public ski area, a California businessman and Elko County ranch owner has been OK'd to build a private facility on his sprawling ranch that extends into the Ruby Mountains.
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Gov. Joe Lombardo announced Thursday that federal officials had approved the state's plan to use about $170 million to expand high-speed internet access to about 28,000 locations
The developer of Nevada's second lithium mine and a private landowner have reached a settlement following a flurry of lawsuits and appeals over water rights the company says are critical to the construction of the mine.
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have for years worked alongside private security to surveil protesters who oppose Nevada's Thacker Pass lithium mine, according to internal law enforcement communications reviewed by ProPublica.
Longtime Nye County District Court Judge Kimberly Wanker filed a petition Wednesday with the state Supreme Court seeking "clarification" as to whether the attorney general's office is legally required to represent judges subject to complaints brought by the state's Commission on Judicial Discipline.
The Trump administration has rescinded its final approval for Nevada to use its nearly half-billion-dollar broadband award, further delaying the state's plan to achieve universal high-speed internet and speed up internet service for areas, including rural ones, plagued by slow connections.
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.
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.