State News
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UNLV awarded $3M grant for unique educator training program
The Nevada Forward Initiative, a first-of-its-kind apprenticeship program in the West, helps prospective educators earn a teaching degree while still maintaining employment. Officials hope the funds could train up to 300 new educators. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), has been awarded nearly $3 million from the US Department of Education to help prepare…
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Encabeza cónsul de México en Las Vegas la ceremonia “El Grito de Dolores”
Encabeza cónsul de México en Las Vegas la ceremonia “El Grito de Dolores”.
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PUC denies NV Energy bid to triple service charge in Northern Nevada
In a rare victory for NV Energy consumers, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada voted Tuesday to reject the utility’s bid to nearly triple the basic service charge for Northern Nevada customers from $16.50 a month to $45.30 a month, “a number that I believe is much too high,” Commissioner Randy Brown said during the…
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Trump’s second term could rip Nevada’s immigrant families apart
A UNLV law professor lays out what’s at stake and shares his fears that families will be separated and entire communities at risk in a second Trump term.
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Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown has criticized government spending. But his former company made millions off federal contracts, records show
The Republican Senate candidate’s former company was awarded $2.7 million in federal contracts from 2020 to May 2022, representing nearly the entirety of its funding. Sam Brown has forged his political persona as a conservative who has railed against large government spending bills, but Brown’s former business took on millions in government contracts while he…
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Nevada students inching up in math and English proficiency, report shows
Nevada still ranks among the bottom 10 states in education nationwide, but a new report shows small wins across the state in test scores and graduation rates.
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El cuidado en el hogar puede ser un trabajo costoso e ingrato. La senadora de Nevada Jacky Rosen está intentando cambiar eso.
El cuidado en el hogar puede ser un trabajo costoso e ingrato. La senadora de Nevada Jacky Rosen está intentando cambiar eso.
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Home caregiving can be expensive, thankless work. Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen is trying to change that.
Rosen is among a group of bipartisan US House and Senate legislators who are pushing to establish a tax credit program that would give caregivers $5,000 to cover out-of-pocket expenses. Las Vegas resident Barb Hartzell is always taking care of others, though it’s not very often that others are looking out for her. A member…
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Pahrump-based utility to receive $80M for solar project through Inflation Reduction Act
The funding will help subsidize the installation of a 37-megawatt solar power generation and storage system that will service the Pahrump and Fish Lake Valley region, officials said. A rural Nevada electric utility company was awarded more than $80 million in federal grant funding last week to aid in the construction and installation of solar…
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State approves Elko charter school tied to controversial ‘classical’ curriculum
The Nevada State Public Charter School on Friday approved the opening of an Elko charter school that plans to use curricula from Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian private college with an outreach program “devoted to the revitalization of public education through the launch and support of classical K-12 charter schools.”
