Close to 200 AmeriCorps members in Nevada abruptly lost their jobs Monday after the Trump administration ordered an immediate stop to federally funded work, affecting eight organizations across the state. Nationally, 41 percent of the agency's budget was eliminated Friday and close to 33,000 AmeriCorps members were pulled from their service. 

Key city officials have declined interviews with The Nevada Independent, and a records request regarding city emails resulted in pages of redactions. The Indy is exploring its legal options.

The two largest cities in Nevada are trying to overturn court decisions that said sweeping people from an encampment when there is no room at local shelters "cruel and unusual."

There are only 5,000 acres — out of more than 5 million acres in Clark County — of the most optimal land available in the county for "employment" purposes, a state-commissioned study found.

Nevada's local governments reported spending nearly $4.7 million to lobby legislators during this year's session, breaking the record for annual lobbying spending by more than $700,000

State and local officials across Nevada signed agreements with Northshore Clinical Labs, a COVID testing laboratory run by men with local political connections. There was only one problem: Its tests didn't work.

The Assembly Committee on Natural Resources voted Friday to advance a legislative proposal, pushed by the Southern Nevada Water Authority, to require the removal of about 5,000 acres of unused grass, an action that could save billions of gallons of Colorado River water each year.

This week's Indy Environment newsletter looks at a hearing Tuesday on AB380, legislation that would require gas utilities to go through a comprehensive planning process meant to consider the effects of decarbonization on their operations and ratepayers.

The City of Henderson has fined the company that hosted President Donald Trump's campaign rally Sunday evening $3,000 for multiple violations of the state's emergency coronavirus directive.

The Reno City Council approved a five-year agreement with NV Energy that prevents it from leaving the utility in exchange for a $450,000 payment from the state's largest power provider.

The deal, which is up for approval at the water authority's board meeting on Thursday, is worth $2.5 million with an automatic annual four percent increase that will see the annual payment top out at about $3.5 million by 2029.