Nevada’s schools are having trouble finding workers. And it’s an across-the-board problem, they simply can’t hire enough teachers, substitutes, aides... or bus drivers.
More than 250-thousand people in Washoe County voted in the 2020 general election, marking it the highest rate of voter turnout in the county’s history.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Washoe County's health district officer fears the governor's new push to fully reopen businesses statewide by June 1 will accelerate a recent rise in COVID-19 cases.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Lawyers for a Salvadoran immigrant accused of killing four people in two counties in 2019 are urging Nevada's Supreme Court to overturn for a second time a Washoe County judge's ruling that he can be tried for all the crimes in district court in Reno.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities in Nevada have said the Washoe County sheriff's office announced plans to eliminate an enormous backlog of concealed carry weapons permit requests by July.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A sheriff in Nevada has asked the Washoe County Board of Commissioners to not consider a proposal to charge a fee for providing body-worn camera footage to the public.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities in Nevada have asked the Washoe County Commission for permission to charge a fee for providing body-worn camera footage to the public.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Beginning next week, public gatherings in Washoe County will be subject to the same 50-person limitation that was in effect before Gov. Steve Sisolak raised the statewide cap.
The governor set the cap at 250 on Oct. 1 as part of a relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A dramatic surge in confirmed coronavirus cases in the Reno-Sparks area prompted the Nevada coronavirus task force to call an emergency meeting with the Washoe County Health District to address the county's plan to manage the outbreak.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Coronavirus infections have reached another record high in the Reno-Sparks area, where the Washoe County health district officer continues to raise concerns that the limit on the size of public gatherings is too lenient.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A judge has cleared the way for a Salvadoran immigrant to be tried in Reno for all four homicides he's accused of committing during a six-day crime rampage in two Nevada counties in January 2019.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada officials said Friday they are developing plans to lower the possibility of contracting the coronavirus in six, high-risk counties that include the cities of Las Vegas and Reno.
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. (AP) — Washoe County has agreed to a $56 million settlement with a group of Lake Tahoe property owners who have claimed for more than 15 years they were the victims of unfair property tax assessments.
Washoe County’s district health officer has told Board of Health officials that students should not return to schools due to what he called “a high potential for increased spread of COVID-19.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Washoe County has temporarily suspended COVID-19 testing of most people with no symptoms because of a backlog of test samples at the state lab caused in part by increased testing of inmates at state institutions.
The Washoe County Health District says that a spike in COVID-19 cases there is likely related to people gathering to celebrate Easter earlier this month.
While many Nevadans are taking precautions ordered by Governor Steve Sisolak seriously, others are eager to get back to work, school and other parts of life before COVID-19.
