🟣 Nevada’s unregulated ‘crypto kiosks’ are a paradise for scammers, AARP warns. Nevada Current
“Nevadans are losing millions of dollars each year to cryptocurrency scams, and much of the fraud is aided by the hundreds of largely unregulated ‘bitcoin ATMs,’ state lawmakers heard last week.”
🟣 Las Vegas Review-Journal will no longer print competitor the Las Vegas Sun for the first time in decades. The Associated Press
“It was the first day in 76 years the Sun hasn’t been printed, Sun attorney Leif Reid said in an email. The two publications will be in court Friday and the Sun hopes a judge will order printing to immediately resume … The now-rare joint operating agreement required the Sun to be printed as a daily insert in the Review-Journal, the state’s largest newspaper.”
🟣 Nevada-Utah coalition files appeal to BLM’s OK for Cedar City water pipeline. 8 News Now
“Farmers, ranchers and others have joined Utah’s Beaver County, Millard County, Juab County, Nevada’s White Pine County, the City of Milford (Utah) and the Great Basin Water Network in filing an appeal to a BLM decision to approve the pipeline … The appeal claims the BLM’s decision ‘violates federal law by allowing severe harms to private property, water rights, public resources, and the environment.’”
🟣 Nevada unemployment rate rises to 5.3% in January. Fox 5
“‘While the unemployment rate increased slightly to 5.3%, the state’s labor force participation rate also rose to 63.6%, 1.5 percentage points higher than the national participation rate,’ said [David Schmidt, chief economist for Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation].”
