
Updated Online Tool Connects NV Veterans with Benefits
Only about 40% of Nevada’s 226,000 military veterans actually use their government benefits, so AARP has just revamped its online tool to help people connect to the right programs.
Only about 40% of Nevada’s 226,000 military veterans actually use their government benefits, so AARP has just revamped its online tool to help people connect to the right programs.
This midterm election, Nevadan voters, by a slim majority of 52.8 percent, voted “Yes” on ballot initiative question three which establishes open top-five primaries and ranked-choice voting.
Last month, the conservationist group Center for Biological Diversity sent a formal notice with the intention to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in regards to the Fish Lake Valley tui chub that resides near the California-Nevada line.
Nevada U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen provided a much-needed plan towards fixing the state’s pollution problem earlier this month, announcing that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is putting $1 million towards building air quality monitor systems across the state.
Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA), the main utility for the region encapsulating Reno and Sparks, is looking upstream and closer to the source of the Truckee River in the hopes that preventing wildfires on the land surrounding it will keep water cycles stable for Nevada.
Housing costs, including rental prices, are on the path to stabilizing but evidence of this won’t show up in inflation measures anytime soon, economists say.
Nevada has a strong labor market that has vastly recovered from the economic downturn of the pandemic, but record-high inflation and the struggle to find new workers cause people to worry that a recession is around the corner.
Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that elements of Nevada’s economy have seen gains over the past 6 months, even with staggeringly high unemployment rates.
On October 12, 2022, the Nation celebrated President Biden’s historic decision to designate his administration’s first National Monument at Camp Hale, 20 miles north of Leadville, Colorado.
As Taylor Swift announced the details of her 2023 “The Eras Tour,” swifties in Nevada are surprised to find out that Las Vegas is the second stop of her tour.
The Animal Foundation has announced that it will no longer be open to the public on Mondays.
Clark County officials have detected a highly contagious strain of avian flu in two dead geese at Sunset Park, and say birds at other watering holes throughout the valley are showing symptoms of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), which is primarily found in waterfowl, but is a threat to backyard flocks of poultry and other birds.