DRI, which marks its 60th anniversary this year, focuses on studying environmental science from evaluating snowpack to tracking climate patterns. Although graduate students sometimes work with DRI, the research institute does not currently offer Ph.D. degrees. That’s one thing Averyt said she is open to changing.

It’s the latest in a string of lawsuits since the state announced in early December that it had granted additional licenses, but refused to reveal even the business names of those who won without the winners’ written consent.

The Storey Teller defamation lawsuit is a complicated tale fueled by the heated public feuds and factions that have existed in Virginia City since the discovery of the Comstock Lode (the credit for which is itself disputed).

Democratic Assemblywoman Ellen Spiegel presented two bills on Friday that would allow patients to apply cash payments on drugs and the costs of out-of-network emergency bills to their insurance plan deductibles or annual out-of-pocket maximums.

On Friday, Sandoval, now working as MGM’s president of global gaming development, was given the Eagle Leadership Award by the Latino Leaders Network. The award, offered to leaders whose achievements the organization credits with making “a significant impact on the lives of Latinos living in the United States,” is given out quarterly.

An audit of the Nevada Department of Taxation found that information reported to the state in tax returns didn’t match information entered into a seed-to-sale tracking software nearly three-quarters of the time. The report also faulted the department for using only a fraction of the money lawmakers allocated to ramp up security in state offices working with the mostly cash industry

Unions have long been reliable Democratic boosters, and the 2018 election cycle was no different. PACs and political funds for 81 Nevada unions across dozens of industries contributed almost $1.4 million to 50 of 63 state legislators, good for roughly 13.2 percent of legislative donations in the 2018 campaign cycle.

Drug manufacturers earned an average of $1.58 in profit for every $1 they spent on the production and administration of diabetes drugs in 2017, according to a report released by the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services on Monday.

Gov. Steve Sisolak has signed Nevada on to an agreement to fulfill the greenhouse gas-reducing objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement, even though President Donald Trump vowed to withdraw the U.S. from the accord.

In total, 280 PACs, political groups and inter-candidate contributions accounted for $1.4 million across 62 legislators, or about 12 percent of the $11.7 million spent on the legislature through the 2018 election cycle. It’s a total eclipsed only by the state’s powerful gaming industry ($1.7 million), though unlike that industry, there were few dominant contributors and no single donor gave more than a five-figure dollar amount.

As policymakers rethink how best to help Nevadans grappling with mental health issues, substance use disorders, homelessness and the foster care system, Medicaid is preparing to ask the federal government to allow it to provide additional services to some of the state’s most vulnerable residents.

Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly told Gov. Steve Sisolak on Thursday that she would not enforce the state's new gun background checks law, joining a slew of other small county sheriffs moving to defy the newly approved law.

In an ongoing dispute that has captivated a town once home to Mark Twain, a Carson City judge ruled Monday that an irreverent reporter was not protected under Nevada’s shield law until he started paying dues to the Nevada Press Association.

Nevada joined a coalition of nearly two dozen states in filing a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of a new federal rule blocking groups that provide abortions or refer to abortion providers from receiving federal family planning dollars.

Members of the court heard arguments on Monday from attorneys arguing whether Titlemax, a high-interest title lender with more than 40 locations in Nevada, should face punishment or be permitted to continue issuing loans that extend past the state’s 210-day limit for high interest loans through creative use of “grace periods.”

Two years after a wrenching hearing on a possible death penalty ban, and just weeks after an inmate who was stymied in his quest to die at the hands of the state took his own life, Nevada lawmakers are once again grappling with ending capital punishment.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry said he and President Donald Trump “regret” Gov. Steve Sisolak’s decision to not attend meetings with administration officials last weekend in protest of a shipment of plutonium to Nevada and doubled down on their position that Nevada officials — including the governor — were warned the radioactive material would be sent to the state.

According to a copy of Sisolak’s official calendar, the new governor held a slew of meetings and calls throughout January and the first week of February with education and business leaders, union heads, one Trump administration official and with California billionaire and Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer.