Ben Kieckhefer, a former state senator and Nevada Gaming Commissioner, will serve as chief of staff for Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo.

Following an October meeting of the Interim Finance Committee, just $135 million of the more than $2.7 billion state general aid (less than 5 percent) remained unallocated.

Brittnie Watkins will become the second Black woman ever to chair the Nevada Gaming Control Board when she takes over on Dec. 1.

The Nevada System of Higher Education’s requested general fund budget ($1.4 billion) is 8 percent less than requested in the previous biennium ($1.5 billion).

In March 2021, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion ARP federal stimulus package into law, delivering nearly $7 billion to Nevada, including $2.7 billion in flexible aid for the state government. Of that flexible aid, just 3.5 percent ($97 million) remains unobligated.

Nevada Lt. Gov. Lisa Cano Burkhead has submitted draft legislation that would allow county commissions and certain cities to appoint additional members to their local school boards. 

In a poll taken over the last three days, more than 95 percent of the 473 union members polled said they had “no confidence” in the state’s incumbent governor.

Guindon said roughly $400 million would go to the state's Rainy Day Fund, pushing the fund’s balance to a record high. In January, the treasurer’s office announced that the fund hit a balance of $340 million, amounting to about 85 percent of the pre-pandemic high for the fund of $401 million.

The country’s largest gun safety advocacy organization is jumping into Nevada’s 2022 gubernatorial election with a $3.6 million media campaign attacking Republican Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.

State investigators reveal that the company did not follow basic safety protocols.

Amid an increase in fatal and non-fatal overdoses — including many caused by fentanyl misuse — Gov. Steve Sisolak and state health officials are creating a statewide task force focused on reducing and responding to the issue.

Nevada officials repeated that assessment, the report said, with one telling investigators that there was a “mindset” that “children need to go to residential” because of the lack of community services. 

Nevada Department of Corrections Director Charles Daniels has resigned, per a request from Gov. Steve Sisolak after a convicted murderer escaped from Southern Desert Correctional Center last Friday.

In a statement following passage of the allocations, Barbara Buckley, executive director of the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, called them a “transformational package of funding for children’s mental health services.”

One in 6 DMV jobs are vacant and the use of online services has dropped 2.4 percent year over year. The agency said about 200,000 transactions a year are done in person, when they could be completed online.

Since early February, lawmakers have approved grants for more than 50 organizations across Nevada, ranging from less than $11,000 for a hospital in Churchill County to $3 million for the ​​Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows in Reno. 

From July 2019 to June 2021, the agency charged more than $13,000 for roughly 700 hours of inmate labor, while paying those laborers just $745 in wages.

The Nevada Supreme Court ruled on three major election cases Tuesday that reshape the November ballot, allowing an initiative proposing open primaries and ranked-choice voting to proceed while voiding another measure proposing a voucher-style education program.

The Supreme Court issued an expected opinion Friday overturning a 50-year constitutional right to abortion and igniting an issue that could play a significant role in the November midterm elections. 

That amount represents a 25 percent increase over what the state was projected to bring in up to this point in the fiscal year, which was about $3.2 billion.