Nevada News

The swarm west of Preston struck in exactly the part of Nevada that seismologists say lacks earthquake monitoring stations, while the money that has actually reached the state so far covers planning only, not a single new sensor in the ground.

Nevada diesel has jumped 73% in a year to $6.84 a gallon, and the district says it is absorbing the extra cost from the same central office funds already stretched by $51.6 million in fall cuts that had parents and teachers furious at Thursday’s school board meeting.

The increase regents approved in January was always going to land on top of a separate, already scheduled inflation adjustment, and UNLV’s own published fee schedule confirms the combined three year increase is more than double the number that made headlines, a gap now shaping a contested regent election.

Two new Brookings Mountain West studies show Nevada ties Arizona, Colorado and Utah for the lowest state child care investment in the region, but Nevada’s own statewide desert rate runs nearly 10 percentage points worse than any of the three, a gap this publication calculated independently and that neither report explains.

Clark County’s own budget forecasts undershot this fall’s enrollment collapse by more than four times, a gap this publication calculates cost the district roughly $75 million in unanticipated state funding and forced a second round of cuts on top of the $50 million already trimmed in the spring.

A $2 million grant for 28 schools this month consumed nearly half of the $5 million Nevada set aside statewide to build new free preschool classrooms this year, even as the per-pupil funding rate underneath the whole program has lost about 18.5% of its buying power to inflation since lawmakers set it five years ago.

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.

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.

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.