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‘We’re not open for business’ says Clark County to street vendors
Clark County commissioners Tuesday criticized messaging from the Nevada legislature for a bill meant to reduce regulatory burdens for street food vendors seeking permits, which commissioners say created a lack of clarity about what street food vendors can and can’t do. “I think the messaging from some of the legislature was we’re open for business. […]
NV households struggle to pay summer power bills, and it’s getting worse
Record heat in Southern Nevada throughout July drove scores of residents to take refuge in air-conditioned homes, but the cost of fighting off summer temperatures will likely leave an alarming number of Nevadans unable to pay their bills. Last month was the hottest July ever recorded in Las Vegas, according to the National Weather Service, […]
Street food vendors are ‘open for business’ said NV governor; Clark County disagrees
A video showing a violent confrontation between police and a street food vendor near the Welcome to Las Vegas Sign has exposed significant holes in the implementation of a bill meant to bring the iconic retailers out of the shadows. Less than a month after Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo held a heavily publicized signing ceremony […]
CA fire moves into Southern Nevada
Wildfire season crept into Southern Nevada over the weekend, bringing destructive fire and a thick film of smoke into Clark County. Federal fire officials are tracking and investigating a fire they say started on private land within the Mojave National Preserve in California on Friday, before moving into Nevada on Sunday. According to a United […]
July brought Nevada record heat and hospitalizations
After weeks of extreme heat across the West, health officials have reported numerous deaths in Southern Nevada, while emergency rooms across the state are seeing record numbers of people seeking treatment for heat exhaustion and other heat-related illnesses. At least 16 people have died from heat-related illness in Clark County so far in 2023, according […]
Report ranks Nevada in top 10 for clean energy jobs
Nevada’s efforts to become a national leader in clean energy are paying off, catapulting the state to the top of the list for clean energy investments and jobs. According to a new report published Wednesday by Climate Power, Nevada in the last year has created more than 11,500 “good-paying clean energy jobs”— which the group […]
NV tribe sues feds over water rights, failure to protect endangered fish
For nearly two decades the federal government mismanaged tribal water rights and failed to preserve enough water to protect two threatened and endangered fish in Pyramid Lake, alleges the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in a federal lawsuit. Despite federal protections and efforts by the tribe to protect important habitat, the culturally significant cui-ui and Lahontan […]
BLM admits error, pulls approval of Ash Meadows lithium project
Federal land managers have pulled their approval for a controversial lithium exploration project less than a mile from a treasured wetland habitat home to a trove of species found nowhere else in the world. Late Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management admitted the agency erred when they approved an exploratory mineral drilling operation near the […]
9th Circuit says Thacker Pass lithium mine can proceed
Construction of what may become the nation’s largest lithium mine can proceed after a U.S. appeals court denied a last ditch effort by tribes and conservationists to block the controversial project. In a decision Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to vacate federal land managers’ approval of a lithium mine at Thacker […]
Lombardo assures street vendors police are on their side
In a bill signing ceremony Tuesday, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo praised legislation decriminalizing street vendors in classic conservative terms: “entrepreneurship” and reducing regulatory burdens for small businesses. “Nevada is open for business,” Lombardo said, calling opening a business the cornerstone of “achieving the American Dream.” “The ability to pursue that dream is by doing business […]
Toad’s endangered listing forces Ormat, Interior to rethink proposed geothermal project
A planned geothermal plant in Nevada was sent back to square one last week after federal land managers decided to reexamine their approval of the project following the listing of a small rare toad living in adjacent springs as endangered. On Wednesday, the U.S Department of the Interior announced plans to undertake a new environmental […]
2 horses die so far in BLM roundup
The Bureau of Land Management scaled up roundups of wild horses from federal rangelands this month with the largest roundup of the summer. Starting July 9th, federal land managers began plans to round up more than 3,000 wild horses in the southern portion of the Antelope Complex and the northern part of Elko County. As […]