Nye County commissioners voiced concerns for small businesses and the economy in rural Nevada during the coronavirus pandemic, during a commission meeting Tuesday.
Commission Chair John Koenig is a part of the county’s COVID-19 Task Force.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The virus outbreak is taking its toll on media in Nevada, with closures of rural weekly publications and curtailment of sections published in the state's largest metropolitan daily.
MINDEN, Nev. (AP) — In California, Elizabeth Warren gazes into a laptop camera, resting her chin on her hand while recounting her working-class childhood for about 200 voters scattered across Nevada hundreds of miles away.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four rural Nevada counties are balking at a new state law calling for strict background checks, with elected lawmakers voting to join a "Second Amendment sanctuary" drive affecting sheriff's offices and statehouses in several Western U.S.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two rural Nevada sheriffs are citing the Second Amendment and one is invoking the specter of Nazi Germany in vowing not to enforce a strict new gun background check law just approved by the state Legislature.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded some $600,000 in grants for two Nevada projects designed to improve broadband access in 15 rural counties.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Transportation Department has awarded $14.8 million in grants to three rural Nevada airports to improve runways and other infrastructure in Ely, Elko and Battle Mountain.
The ACLU of Nevada has sued the state of Nevada for violating the constitutional rights of people in 11 of its rural counties.
According to the suit, Nevada has not made sure that everyone accused of a crime who cannot afford a personal lawyer has access to legal representation.
