One state. Every Nevada.
Nearly all of Nevada is under fire weather alerts through tonight, in a year that has already burned more acres nationally than any point in at least a decade, and one in five Hawk Fire damage claims filed so far have no insurance behind them at all.
An estimated 5,800 to 6,000 Nevadans hold Temporary Protected Status tied to El Salvador, concentrated in Strip hotels and construction crews, a share of the national TPS population roughly three to four times what Nevada’s population alone would predict.
Every bill, veto, special session, and candidate filing in Nevada is a matter of public record. Here is what turns up when you actually go looking.
Homicides in Las Vegas are up 17 percent this year, ending three straight years of decline. The 89 percent clearance rate behind that number stands in sharp contrast to Nevada’s other violent crime data.
Read together, a federal wage report released this week and a housing affordability report from this summer show why Las Vegas Valley’s job growth hasn’t made the area more affordable: at the county’s current pace of wage growth, closing the gap to what it costs to buy a home here would take a typical household nearly three decades.
The NIAA has grown to its largest membership in years. Over the same stretch, the number of state championship tournaments it runs has fallen from 71 to 60.
Containment held at 98 percent and command passed to a local incident commander on Tuesday, closing out a fire whose own price tag dwarfs the state’s base firefighting budget, with only part of the bill covered by federal aid.
The state’s largest university is logging its fourth straight year of enrollment growth just as the school district that feeds most of its Nevada freshmen keeps shrinking, though newly filed budget numbers suggest that decline is finally slowing down.
Back to back daily records fell this week during Southern Nevada’s fourth extreme heat warning in a month, capping a summer that had piled up more 110 degree days in July than a typical year sees at all.
A Reno woman’s death, confirmed the same day Gov. Joe Lombardo signed an executive order for fire victims, makes her the second person killed by Washoe County wildfires this year, a count no other report has added up.
