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Nevada’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate edged up slightly to 7.1 percent in January, from a revised 7 percent in December. Nevertheless it is 1.4 percentage points below the 8.5 percent rate for last January. Additionally, employers have added jobs relative to the previous year in 49 straight months.

Veterans turned out in force on Tuesday to back construction of a Northern Nevada Veterans Home.At present, the only veteran’s home in the state is in southern Nevada and, with 180 beds, is at capacity.Kat Miller, hea...

Friends in Service Helping, also known as FISH, is launching a new community project to renovate and improve the façade of its thrift store on North Carson Street in Carson City. The human services nonprofit invites residents and local organizations with construction experience to participate in the project by volunteering their skills and materials to renovate their store front on Carson Street.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed a bill into law exempting school construction projects from paying contractors a prevailing wage. The Republican governor announced the signing ......

Wasting no time, Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday signed into law a bill exempting school construction projects from Nevada’s prevailing wage law....

One day after the Legislature passed a measure to exempt school construction from prevailing wage laws, the AFL-CIO began airing an ad designed to get the governor's attention.
Gov. Brian Sandoval is expected to sign th...

The bill exempting school construction projects from having to pay prevailing wage to tradesmen received final legislative approval from the Assembly on Thursday.SB119 is headed for Gov. Brian Sandoval’s desk.The vote...

The Nevada Assembly has passed a bill loathed by Democrats because it would suspend prevailing wage rules on school construction projects. The Assembly approved ......

A bill that would exempt school and university construction projects from Nevada’s prevailing wage law passed the Assembly on Thursday on a narrow 23-19 vote....

Rookie Democratic Assemblywoman Amber Joiner was so thrilled to be at the bill signing ceremony for the school construction bill that she took a selfie....

With legislation allowing school districts to extend their existing bonds and lifting prevailing wage requirements from school construction stalled in the Assembly, an emergency measure with just the bond r...

The Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living is partnering with various agencies to expand its services into the rural areas of Nevada.
Staff members be visiting a different rural Nevada area each week to share information about products and services available to rural residents who have disabilities. They’ll be at the Carson City Senior Center, Friday, March 6 from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; the Dayton Senior Center the second Monday of each month, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; and the Dayton Library the third Thursday of each month, from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m.

The Nevada Assembly has passed an emergency bill extending bonds for school construction. Assembly members voted 27-14 to approve SB 207, which gives school districts the authority to ......

A controversial bill that would extend a bond rollover program to address pressing school construction needs won approval in the Assembly on Wednesday and now heads to Gov. Brian Sandoval for his signature....

That's the allegation in a complaint filed Tuesday with legislative police by Assemblyman John Moore against Majority Leader Paul Anderson.
The confrontation came after Anderson tried to persuade Moore to change his vote to get a controversial school construction/bond rollover bill out of committee....

A Nevada Assembly committee has failed to pass a bill that would extend school construction bonds and suspend prevailing wage requirements for school projects. The Assembly Government Affairs Committee held a vote on Tuesday to ......

A controversial bill that would extend a bond rollover program to address pressing school construction needs failed to win a committee vote Tuesday that would have sent it to the full Assembly without a recommendation....

UPDATE From Organizer Trina Voigt: We are still looking for donations, please and thank you for those who have said they would contribute! I will be taking donations of baked items on Friday, March 6, from 5:45pm-6:15pm in front of Del Taco off of Collage Parkway and Roop, across from Walmart.
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Senate Republican leaders announced they will introduce a stand-alone, emergency bill authorizing school districts to roll over bonding authority for school construction projects unless the Assembly passes a comprehensive measure that includes prevailing wage exemptions by the end of the week....

A bill that promises more money for a backlog of school construction projects but would suspend wage rules favored by Democrats faced even more opposition in the Nevada Assembly than it did when it passed quickly thro...

Nevada lawmakers continued to push their extensive reform agenda Wednesday, passing a bill sharply reducing the size of a bond that must be posted to appeal a construction defects award.The vote on SB134 by Majority L...

Nevada Assembly members are vetting a bill that promises more money for school construction but would suspend wage rules favored by Democrats. SB119 passed quickly through the Republican-controlled Senate on party lines. It was picked apart ......

Carson City community leaders broke ground Thursday at the Russell Way site of the new Multi-Use Athletic Center, also known as the MAC.

"It's a great day for our community" said Mayor Bob Crowell before ceremonial shovels were used to turn the dirt and usher in a new era of community athletic opportunities and sports tourism in Carson City.

Once upon a time in Nevada, a Reno tailor named Jacob Davis wrote a letter to Levi Strauss about his pocket rivets, and thus the blue jean was born. Coincidentally, today is Strauss’ birthday. Once upon a time in Nevada, Buffalo Bill Cody was just a kid riding for the Pony Express. It’s his birthday, too. Fun fact: Cuba Crutchfield, a trick-rope cowboy with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, is buried in Carson City’s Lone Mountain Cemetery. Once upon a time in Nevada, a man was shot in Reno.

Citing issues ranging from construction defects and tort reform to education, tourism and economic development, Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison told a breakfast meeting of business leaders on Wednesday this legislative sessio...

Nevada lawmakers continued to push their extensive reform agenda Wednesday, passing a bill sharply reducing the size of a bond that must be posted to appeal a construction defects award.The vote on SB134 by Majority L...

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday signed the first major Republican-backed reform bill of the 2015 session, a measure making changes to Nevada’s construction defect law....

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed a bill aimed at curbing frivolous lawsuits over construction defects. The Republican governor signed the measure into law on Tuesday, saying AB125 will strengthen ......

The Carson City Parks and Recreation Department will hold a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for the New Multi-Athletic Center, also known as the MAC, gymnasium project. The ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m., headed up by the Carson City Board of Supervisors.

For nearly a century, the gasoline tax has provided the financial foundation for the nation's roads. For each gallon they pump, motorists have paid several additional cents in taxes to their state and federal governments....