The state’s health and human services director says the new program will help the state come into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Fifteen current and former state employees said they worked under a supervisor who built a culture of fear, retaliation and paranoia. Last year, she returned to lead some of those who spoke out against her.

Under a little-noticed bill that would allow private hospitals to implement an existing “provider tax,” state health officials are hoping to leverage up to $30 million in new state funds to address a lack of youth behavioral health resources.

In 2023, in spite of Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s fierce criticism of the Steve Sisolak administration on the campaign trail, he kept even more. Ten out of the 17 cabinet appointments announced by Lombardo Friday were Sisolak holdovers

State and local officials across Nevada signed agreements with Northshore Clinical Labs, a COVID testing laboratory run by men with local political connections. There was only one problem: Its tests didn’t work.

In Nevada, which ranks last in the nation for nursing home resident vaccination rates, 1 in 4 residents has yet to be fully vaccinated. There are few clear answers why — but an abundance of theories.

When lawmakers kicked off their 120-day legislative session in February, the state was still recovering from a brutal winter surge of COVID-19, which saw a thousand new cases of the virus reported across the state each day.

Nevada became the second state in the nation to enact a state-managed public health insurance option on Wednesday, with Gov. Steve Sisolak’s signature transforming a bill that hadn’t even been made public until six weeks ago into law.

More than a year into the pandemic, the victory we long for has been delayed as the vaccination effort races against the variants’ spread. This uncertain moment, however, offers an opportunity for Nevada: To reflect, to learn and to heal.

Over the last year, the pandemic has sometimes brought the state and local governments together as they allied to face a grim future together in the face of no centralized national response strategy. It has also sometimes wrenched them apart.

The last year laid bare Nevada’s chronic underfunding of public health systems, a lack of investment in aging state infrastructure, including its unemployment system and continued economic overreliance on the tourism industry. It also saw resilience in the face of despair.

The proposal, which was released Monday evening and comes a day before the governor’s biennial State of the State address, sets the state budget at about $8.68 billion over the next two years, or about $500 million less than what was allocated during the last two-year budget cycle. The state’s tourism-dependent economy remains battered by the COVID-19 pandemic but economists are hopeful that a vaccine will usher in recovery.

The Governor’s Office for New Americans (ONA) released a statement on Tuesday saying that Nevada’s COVID-19 vaccination program cannot share personal information with federal agencies. The statement came in response to growing concerns in Nevada, notably among the undocumented immigrant community, over privacy protections provided by the program.

If a sushi bar can’t open their countertop, I want to understand what is the science behind that? If there is an establishment that has Plexiglass at their countertop in between different partition eaters, I'd like to know why is that any different than sitting across from somebody at lunch.”

Nevada Medicaid is moving forward with a planned 6 percent across-the-board rate reduction approved by lawmakers during a special session last month to balance a billion dollar shortfall in the state’s budget.

The bill, which is likely to be the last piece of legislation introduced during the special session, cleared the Senate Committee of the Whole early Tuesday morning, 18-3, with Republican Sens. Ira Hansen, Joe Hardy and Pete Goicoechea in opposition. The legislation, SB4, has dominated the behind-the-scenes conversations during the session and is the culmination of a deal between some of the state’s most powerful political interests, including casinos, business groups and the Culinary Union.

The Patient Protection Commission plans to explore the issue of health care pricing transparency, including the possibility of a state medical claims database, at its next meeting in two weeks.

State officials presented to the Senate on Wednesday $233 million in proposed cuts from the health care budget that will slash key programs for low-income Nevadans and significantly pare back mental health services to ease a budget crisis caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Legislators on the Interim Finance Committee, a 20-member board that oversees spending between legislative sessions, voted unanimously on Thursday to approve the proposed budget cuts, which included $21.5 million in reversed one-shot appropriations and another $66.9 million cut from state agencies and departments.

Two key COVID-19 metrics state officials used to determine it was safe to start reopening Nevada’s economy have started to increase slightly this week after relatively consistent declines since April, the state’s biostatistician told a state health panel on Tuesday.