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Nevada government, courts, elections, and public life; the stories affecting residents statewide, from Carson City policy to Clark County courtrooms.
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.
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.
Nevada’s federal lawsuit centers on losing 71 percent of its paper Colorado River allocation, but two decades of conservation mean the state already draws far less than that entitlement, so the cut to water Southern Nevada actually uses works out to 56 percent, a gap no other outlet had calculated.
A comparison of the Bug, Stallion and Hawk fires’ own damage figures shows the smallest of the three by acreage destroyed homes at nearly 29 times the rate of the largest.
The uncontained Hawk Fire has also become Washoe County’s second wildfire in nine days to top 15,000 acres, pushing this month’s cumulative burn past 3 percent of the county’s land.
The federal government’s own water forecast shows Lake Mead approaching the elevation where Hoover Dam’s hydropower stops paying for itself, just as Las Vegas endures an Excessive Heat Warning through Friday and Nevada leans on nearly a quarter of the dam’s power.
A new charge on power bills is delayed until January, past the hottest summer Las Vegas has seen in years. The company’s own preview of the cost skipped the heat that drove it.
