CARSON CITY, Nevada, Nov. 26 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release: Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford, his sons and his Law Enforcement Community Liaison Investigators (LECLI) partnered with Empowered Cafe and Three Square Food Bank to deliver 40 turkeys and other food items to several families throughout the Las Vegas valley this week. "The Coronavirus Pandemic has severely impacted our state, and many of our fellow Nevadans will have a hard time gath  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Nov. 25 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release on nov. 24: Today, following the Nevada Supreme Court's certification of the State's elections results, Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following statement. The Supreme Court praised the efforts of the State and specifically Nevada Secretary of State Cegavske's 'exemplary' work in ensuring a safe and secure election during COVID-19. "First and foremost, I want to congratulate our   more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Nov. 25 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release on Nov. 24: Today, Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford and 46 other attorneys general announced a $17.5 million joint settlement with The Home Depot. The settlement resolves a multistate investigation into their 2014 data breach that exposed the payment card information of approximately 40 million Home Depot customers across the nation. Nevada will receive $150,712.30 from the settlement.   more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Nov. 24 -- Gov. Stephen Sisolak, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Nov. 22: Today, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced increased restrictions to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in the State. The measures - informed by public health experts, business and economic leaders - go into effect on Tuesday. The mitigation measures will last for the next three weeks, and the Governor and his administration will continue to monitor the COVID-19 trends in the State d  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Nov. 26 -- Gov. Stephen Sisolak, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Nov. 25: Today, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed the Certificate of Ascertainment for the slate of electors for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as required by federal law. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court canvassed and declared the results in Nevada final, paving the way for the Governor to submit a Certificate of Ascertainment to the Federal Government certifying that the presidential electors i  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Nov. 26 -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following news release: Once the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the team at UNLV's Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, and their flagship arts and culture magazine, The Believer, had to put production for the August/September issue on pause. When they weren't able to put out the issue as planned, the BMI/Believer staff began thinking about what it means to come together while we're all stuck in isol  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Nov. 27 (TNSJou) -- The University of California issued the following news release on Nov. 26: In Nevada's dry Ivanpah Valley, just southeast of Las Vegas, a massive unintended experiment in animal conservation has revealed an unexpected result. From 1997 to 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service moved more than 9,100 Mojave desert tortoises to the 100-square-kilometer (about 39 miles square) Large Scale Translocation Site. The newcomers, many of which were abandoned  more

RENO, Nevada, Nov. 25 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news: Parley Anderson, DPT, OCS is a local physical therapist and instructor of applied kinesiology in the School of Community Health Sciences. Dr. Anderson received a bachelor's degree in education for the University of Nevada, Reno in 1993. After graduating, Dr. Andersons spent a few years managing the Wellness Center on campus. In 2001, he decided to switch career paths and pursue a dual Masters and Doctorate of   more

RENO, Nevada, Nov. 26 -- The University of Nevada issued the following news: A week after Election Day on November 10th, the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno continued its "Second Tuesdays with Political Science" webinar series with "Recapping the 2020 Election: What Happened and What's Next." The webinar was moderated by Assistant Professor Ian Hartshorn while panelists Jeremy Gelman and Christina Ladam discussed post-2020 election politics. "We've built this   more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Nov. 25 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following news release: Nearly two decades ago, Matthew O'Brien, '15 MA English, first ventured into a vast network of storm drains under Las Vegas to chronicle the stories of the homeless people who had taken refuge there. That project, which began as a series for the Las Vegas alternative weekly CityLife, became the 2007 book "Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas" and led O'Brie  more