Lombardo in the past has cast the bill as an effort to diversify Nevada’s economy beyond the gaming and tourism industries, a longtime goal of state officials.

The stakes — for the Northern Nevada economy and companies powering its growth — are high. The state has received the most federal investments per capita from the law.

Authorities say Kim threw Molotov cocktails at vehicles and fired several gunshots in a Tesla service center's parking lot early March 18. No one was injured.

Regardless of how one might feel about Musk, Trump or those who oppose them, the recent spate of attacks against the world’s most popular electric vehicles should be a reminder that our current era of division is on the brink of devolving further into chaos.

Now, how did someone who may or may not be in charge of a federal agency tasked solely with modernizing federal technology gain the power to control and dictate personnel policy to the entire executive branch?

Because the Vegas Loop is privately operated and receives no federal funding, it is exempt from the kinds of exhaustive governmental vetting and environmental analyses demanded by the other cities that Elon Musk's company sought to host the project.

The contested race pits Angie Taylor, a one-term assemblywoman against Naomi Duerr, a Reno city councilwoman.

Three separate efforts are taking place to bring a film tax credit bill to the Legislature.

With Biden’s presidency recently hitting the three-year mark, I thought it would be a good time to talk to four experts who evaluated Nevada’s economic recovery over the last three years. 

The Nevada Independent reporters and multimedia journalists are pleased to share their favorite stories, videos and audio reporting from the past calendar year.

At the two-year anniversary of the infrastructure law, Nevada has received billions of federal dollars — and Democrats plan to campaign on it. And reader, rejoice — the government will not shut down! (At least until the next deadline in January.)

Yet, now that the Union Pacific Railroad — the successor company to the original Southern Pacific that built the machine shop over a century ago — has announced that it’s tearing the machine shop down. It’s hard not to feel a little sad.

Below are excerpts from the new chapters in the 2024 Almanac on the state of Nevada and Gov. Joe Lombardo, written by Louis Jacobson.

Many Nevada businesses, small and large, are sensitive to the volatile gasoline prices and higher maintenance costs that come with internal combustion engines, and they are eager for an alternative.

Though few would list Reno in the same annals of American automotive manufacturing history as Detroit, Kenosha or South Bend, the Gigafactory’s expansion will not mark Reno’s first foray into the industry.

The lucrative expansion of film tax credits — potentially worth more than $4 billion through the 20-year lifetime of the proposal — has drawn intense scrutiny and renewed interest by outside parties looking for a slice of the tax credit pie. 

State lawmakers introduced a long-in-the-works bill Thursday that would significantly expand a film tax credit program aimed at bringing Hollywood to Las Vegas.

The Nevada Independent is partnering with The Gigafact Project — an initiative to safeguard democracy and spread accurate information through a dramatic ramp-up in accurate, high-quality fact checks.

“Hopefully this will be the model moving forward for the continued diversification of the state's economy,” Lombardo said during the meeting, adding later in comments to reporters that “this is very beneficial across the board, both in economic development and to build out the quality of life for every Nevadan.”

With 150-year-old county buildings and aging infrastructure — including a water system built in the 1850s still used to service Virginia City — the lack of tax revenue from Tesla means Storey County is waiting on the expiration of abatements to act on its capital needs.