The bill passed with bipartisan support last year and created a $133 million fund to assist with purchases of land plots, residents' down payments and companies' permitting fees.

As federal support for food programs is cut, advocates are urging Nevada to take a more aggressive approach.

In this edition of Indy Education, policy experts say the tax revenue is "unequivocally" going to Nevada schools, but at 2 percent of total funding, it won't close Nevada's per pupil funding gap.

Nevada ranks second highest among cost-burdened renters, behind Florida, and fifth in the country for states with the most excessively cost-burdened homeowners.

In the late addition of Behind the Bar, more information on proposed Medicaid cuts, legislators want age verification for adult websites and a lawmaker withdraws a controversial school board bill. Lawmaker withdraws controversial school board bill

Although the new K-12 education funding formula that Nevada adopted five years ago significantly overhauled how state money flows down to public schools, school funding is still well below what experts think is needed to ensure good outcomes.

Without growth, property tax revenue shrinks. Unless this method is changed, we will need to continue to grow or suffer the economic and quality of life consequences.

A new PAC pre-booked more than $9.4 million in ad buys in Las Vegas, Reno and on Satellite from Sept. 10 to Nov. 5, 2024.

More than half of Nevada's public schools reported proficiency loss in English and science in the 2022-23 school year compared with the year before.

"You don't completely mentally get over it," she told The Nevada Independent about the experience of being trafficked. "But spiritually and emotionally, you can get over the hump … reaching out is the most important thing to getting out of it."

This week's Indy Environment looks at legislation that seeks to require employers provide water, shade and hydration breaks for outdoor and indoor workers exposed to extreme heat.

The Nevada Latino Legislative Caucus wants to increase access to health care services by expanding Medicaid to Nevadans regardless of citizenship or immigration status.

Getting a glimpse of career fields through a virtual reality lens is just one of the unique components of the Employ NV Youth Hub and Teen Zone located inside the West Charleston Library in Las Vegas. Clark County commissioners and various Nevada elected officials attended the hub's grand opening ceremony earlier this month to discuss employment opportunities for young adults ages 16 to 24.

This week's Indy Environment looks at the effects of extreme heat in the workplace and efforts by regulators to protect workers heading into the summer months.

This week's Indy Environment looks at the rising threats of heat illness in the workplace as temperatures warm — and regulatory efforts to protect workers.

State officials said this week that eligible immigrants should apply to Medicaid now that a rule penalizing people for using public assistance has been rolled back. 

"Even within a given setting, such as a city, vulnerability to heat is not equally distributed," stated a forthcoming Guinn Center report.

In their amicus brief, the attorneys general argued that the moratorium should remain in place because eliminating the ban would "irreparably harm the states," Ford's office said. The attorneys general added in the brief that with roughly half of U.S. adults still unvaccinated and children under the age of 12 still ineligible to receive the vaccine, removing the ban could cause cases to surge across the country.

The pandemic drove a more than 10 percent increase in the number of Nevada households homeschooling their children, which was one of the largest leaps nationwide, according to data recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

A new report by the Guinn Center for Policy Priorities released Wednesday highlights Nevada's paltry ranking — the state ranked a lowly 45th in the nation in federal grants per capita in the 2020 fiscal year. Nevada also ranks 42nd on formula grants per capita (grants prescribed by law or administrative regulation, such as Medicaid) and 43rd in federal project grants per capita (which are competitively awarded).