The Bureau of Land Management will host a free public tour of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corral located in Fallon, Nevada, on Friday, May 31, 2024. Attendees will have the opportunity to view wild horses gathered from overpopulated herds in Nevada and Oregon. The privately owned and operated corral is located Fallon, Nev. which is approximately a … [Read more...]
Reno students using STEM to help patients with hand tremors
By Rocio Hernandez The Nevada Independent As volunteers at Renown Regional Medical Center, Galena High School students Keira O’Leary, Manvi Mummalaneni and Cielo Coudriet met patients who struggled with hand tremors. An older volunteer they worked with also suffered with this condition, which made it difficult for her to use her phone even with the aid of a stylus … [Read more...]
City Briefs
From the City of Sparks CITY TO HOLD GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY FOR FIRE STATION 6 The City of Sparks will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its newest fire station on May 9 at 4 p.m. The event will be held at 6963 Scheidbar Road in north Sparks where Fire Station 6 is being constructed. “We are thrilled to begin construction of our newest fire station,” said Mayor Ed … [Read more...]
Decades long push to end smoking in casinos finds new audience: shareholders
By Howard Stutz The Nevada Independent Nevada casino operators, who oversee maybe the last holdouts in a world that’s rapidly going smoke-free, are being asked to change their ways by an unusual audience — their shareholders. Advocates who have long sought to ban smoking inside Nevada casinos have joined stockholders in presenting a proposal to other investors in three … [Read more...]
No, there’s no ‘business case’ for the USPS move out of Reno
By Michael Schaus Special to The Nevada Independent Imagine Amazon deciding it would ship goods from its warehouse in Northern Nevada to a sorting facility in Sacramento, before finally putting it on a truck for final delivery somewhere in Reno. If such a shipping route seems unnecessarily complex, absurdly inefficient and patently illogical, that’s because it’s all of … [Read more...]
Long-awaited Nevada DMV modernization likely delayed, may cost $300M more
By Eric Neugeboren The Nevada Independent One month after Nevada DMV officials said that the long-awaited project to upgrade the agency’s antiquated computer systems was on track and within budget, the agency now says the plan will likely take three more fiscal years and cost $300 million more than originally anticipated. In March, agency officials told lawmakers that … [Read more...]
As Washoe, others adoptanti-camping laws, advocates and homeless fear fallout
By Carly Sauvageau The Nevada Independent When 34-year-old Kyle Fall lost his job, he could no longer afford his Bay Area apartment, much less storage space for all his possessions. “I just spent the last four or five years buying all these things to fill the space that I’ve been renting,” Fall said. “A lot of my stuff ended up being left on the corner.” Out of … [Read more...]
Urged by Cortez Masto, CVS and Walgreens begin dispensing abortion pill in Nevada
By Gabby Birenbaum The Nevada Independent Almost a year after major pharmacy chains began waffling at the prospect of filling mifepristone prescriptions, Walgreens and CVS began dispensing the abortion pill in Nevada during the last few weeks. The decision comes after a concentrated push by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), who called on the chains to follow through … [Read more...]