SACRAMENTO, California, March 4 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release: The Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup has completed its review of the federal process and concluded the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective for use in the Western States. The Workgroup provided its confirmation to the Governors of California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington Tuesday evening, making the J&J vaccine the third COVID-19 vaccine supported  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee issued the following news release on March 3, 2021: The DSCC announced today that Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen will chair the Women's Senate Network for the 2022 cycle, leading the committee's program dedicated to organizing support and raising resources to elect more women to the U.S. Senate. Senator Rosen defeated a Republican incumbent to flip Nevada's Senate seat in 2018. "We need more Democratic women running for office, an  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, March 2 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release: Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford announced the release of a Notice of Funding Opportunity for Nevada law enforcement agencies, prosecutorial offices, courts, and non-profit organizations to apply for the Services-Training-Officers-Prosecutor (STOP) and Sexual Assault Services Program (SASP) grants. The Office of the Nevada Attorney General receives grant funding through the U.S. Depart  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, March 2 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release: Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford is pleased to announce that the Eighth Judicial District Court granted Frederick Steese a Certificate of Innocence and court approval for an award of $1,350,000.00 from the State of Nevada as compensation for the 18 years Steese spent in prison following his wrongful conviction. Eighth Judicial District Court Judge Jasmine Lilly-Spells entered stipulated  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, March 5 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release: Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford, along with the Federal Trade Commission and 46 agencies from 38 states and the District of Columbia, has stopped a massive telefunding operation that bombarded 67 million consumers with 1.3 billion deceptive charitable fundraising calls, mostly illegal robocalls. The defendants collected more than $110 million using their deceptive solicitations. Assoc  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, March 5 -- Gov. Stephen Sisolak, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Governor Steve Sisolak is marking the loss of more than 5,000 Nevadans due to COVID-19 by asking all Nevadans to participate in a moment of silence or lighting of a candle in honor of the lives lost at 6 pm. Additionally, the Governor has ordered the flags of the State of Nevada to be flown at half-staff at the State Capitol and State public buildings and grounds until sunset March 5. Finally, G  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, March 6 -- Gov. Stephen Sisolak, D-Nevada, issued the following statement: * * * Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak issued the following statement reflecting on the one-year anniversary of the first presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 in Nevada. The events of the last year - brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic - have tried our State and country like never before. But through it all - Nevadans remained determined, resilient and strong. I wanted to take a moment to reflect o  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, March 4 -- Gov. Stephen Sisolak, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: The Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup last night completed its review of the federal process and has concluded the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine is safe and efficacious for use in the Western States. The Workgroup provided its confirmation to the Governors of California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington this morning, making the Janssen vaccine the third COVID-19 vaccine  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 4 -- The Nevada Democratic Party issued the following statement on March 3, 2021: * * * The Las Vegas Review-Journal released a poll showing a majority of Nevadans approve of Governor Steve Sisolak's handling of COVID-19 as well as strong job approval ratings. Sisolak's approval ratings have increased since October, becoming more favorable among independents. This comes after Sisolak posted strong fundraising numbers for 2020, entering the cycle with the highest cash   more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 4 -- The Nevada Democratic Party issued the following statement: * * * The Republican State Leadership Committee recently named Nevada Senator Ben Kieckhefer as a leader in their effort to pass restrictive and discriminatory voting legislation. Of course, they cloak this effort as a means to bolster election integrity and to increase voter confidence-something Republicans have themselves annihilated with their repeated false claims of widespread voter fraud. Republic  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 4 -- Gov. Kate Brown, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: The Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup last night completed its review of the federal process and has concluded the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen Biotech) COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective for use in the Western States. The Workgroup provided its confirmation to the Governors of California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington this morning, making the J&J vaccine the third COVID-19 vaccine supporte  more

RENO, Nevada, March 2 (TNSJou) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news: A Nevada-based study of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, indicates all major lineages (variants) of the virus worldwide are present in Nevada. Interestingly, the analysis shows some differences between the northern and southern parts of the state, with Southern Nevada presenting a virus snapshot similar to the rest of the country and Northern Nevada being dominated by one specific varian  more

RENO, Nevada, March 5 (TNSJou) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news: New methods of conservation and management of butterfly habitat may be needed to stem the consistent annual decline in the numbers of butterflies over the past 40 years in the western United States, according to a new study published in the journal Science. "The widespread butterfly declines highlight the importance of careful management of the lands that we do have control over, including our own backyards w  more

RENO, Nevada, March 5 -- The University of Nevada issued the following news: Over winter break, Dr. Gi Yun, along with a team of other Reynolds School of Journalism professors, taught a virtual international course for students from Sejong University and SookMyung Women's University in South Korea as part of the Reynolds School's International Institute. In past years, students traveled to Reno during the summer and learned different international and business reporting techniques. The course   more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 4 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following news release: What happens in your mouth might just end up affecting your whole body. That's what School of Dental Medicine orthodontist Dr. Tanya Al-Talib maintains. She encourages her dental students to treat patient visits as opportunities to catch other ailments in their earliest stages. And there's one ailment she's passionate about detecting -- breathing issues during sleep such as sleep  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 5 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following news release: As Nevada starts rolling out the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, UNLV is stepping up in helping the state store doses of the vaccine. UNLV now has an ultra-low temperature freezer dedicated to the storage of the Pfizer vaccine, which must be stored at temperatures between 80 below zero Celsius and 60 below. This freezer goes along with one UNLV Medicine received from a gene  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 3 -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following news release: Vanessa "Nessa" Concepcion is expanding on the history of Southern Nevada through her work on a new Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) oral history project from UNLV Libraries. "Being able to listen to people's personal stories and experiences is what makes this project so special," said the sophomore computer science major and Asian American studies minor. I really can't wait to   more

OLYMPIA, Washington, March 4 -- Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Washington, issued the following news release on March 3, 2021: Gov. Jay Inslee today announced the authorization of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine by the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup. The announcement comes after the FDA and CDC granted their initial authorization for the J & J vaccine. The Western States Workgroup, comprised of vaccine experts from Washington, California, Oregon and Nevada, has met to review the   more