Six new Nevada laws take effect in 2025 — what's in them?
Jan 1, 2025 · AB259 will phase out all subminimum wage employment in Nevada by Jan. 1, 2028. Starting in 2025, new contracts or arrangements with job providers cannot include a subminimum wage. The bill, which passed unanimously, follows a failed effort in 2019 to end subminimum wages.. President Joe Biden’s administration also recently took steps to phase out subminimum wages for people with disabilities ...
Rosen wins re-election, fending off Brown in Nevada's tight U.S.
Nov 6, 2024 · Like several of her Senate Democratic colleagues running in tight races, Rosen was able to win re-election despite former President Donald Trump winning the state at the top of the ticket. With her win, Democrats have retained a critical swing-state seat. By flipping seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana, Republicans have now taken control of the upper chamber.
Indy Explains: How bird flu is affecting Nevada
Dec 22, 2024 · The strain affecting wild bird populations has been found in geese and ducks in Reno and birds of prey and waterfowl in western Nevada. The virus can spread multiple ways, including through contact between birds, contact between humans and birds, contact between livestock and through contaminated feed, manure and bird droppings.
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The early voting blog, 2024 - The Nevada Independent
Oct 9, 2024 · The Republican turnout edge is now almost 8 percent, almost 9 percent in Clark.The usually reliable Clark Dem firewall has all but evaporated (2,800), the rural GOP firewall is at 37,000 and Washoe is also going well for the Repubs (+5,800).. I know people want to keep comparing this year to 2020 or 2022, but at the risk of repeating myself: This is a unicorn year.
Stadium Authority satisfied with financing for A’s stadium, …
Dec 5, 2024 · The stadium was originally budgeted at $1.5 billion. However, A’s officials said the price increased by $250 million to cover additional construction costs and 70,000 square feet of upgrades to what A’s representative Sandy Dean referred to as “increased programming for fans.”
A’s stadium plan includes a non-retractable roof, baseball’s largest ...
Mar 5, 2024 · The Oakland Athletics released four renderings of the Major League Baseball club’s planned $1.5 billion stadium Tuesday, and it appears the team is replacing the 67-year-old Rat Pack-era Tropicana Las Vegas with something akin to Australia’s Sydney Opera House.
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Price-gouging ban, longer recess on deck for 2025 legislative session
Jan 2, 2025 · Multiple bills focus on how the state addresses sexual offenses. AB4, submitted by the Division of Parole and Probation, would allow the division to request for a person convicted of certain sexual offenses to be released from lifetime supervision, as long as it has been at least 20 years since a person was either released from incarceration or convicted of an offense that could pose a threat ...
Primm casinos reopen as ownership plots course to recapture the …
Feb 12, 2023 · Guests looking to view the bullet-riddled Bonnie and Clyde death car inside Whiskey’s Pete’s Hotel Casino were confused. The historic V-8 Ford, in which notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow perished in a shootout with law enforcement in 1934, was missing from where it had been displayed since the late 1980s in the Primm casino.