SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 24 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release: Working to bolster California's emergency response to multiple wildfires and support impacted communities, Governor Gavin Newsom today requested a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration to assist state and local wildfire response and recovery efforts in Lassen, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity counties. "We are deploying every available tool we have to keep commun  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 25 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 24, 2021: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that the White House has approved California's request for a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration, submitted yesterday, to bolster the ongoing emergency response to wildfires and support impacted communities in Lassen, Nevada, Placer and Plumas counties. "California is grateful for President Biden's swift approval of our request and th  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2021: Yesterday, the "Build Back Better" bus made a stop in Las Vegas where Governor Steve Sisolak and Las Vegas Councilwoman Olivia Diaz put a spotlight on how President Biden's agenda has helped Nevadans. At the stop, local leaders Cecia Alvarado of Mi Familia Vota, and Erica Mosca of Leaders in Training, made clear that thanks to President Biden and Democrats' Build Back Better plan, Nevada  more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Aug. 26 (TNSOps) -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: Leadership by three Mississippi State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty members in a recent premier international meat science conference has contributed to the university's robust reputation in this academic field. Thu Dinh and Derris Devost-Burnett, both associate professors in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, and Wes Schilling, a professor in the Department of Food  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued the following news release: Last week, Catherine Cortez Masto's campaign falsely claimed in a statement to KSNV that she "is one of the most effective leaders in the Senate because she works across the aisle to get things done for Nevada." In addition to voting for Chuck Schumer's anti-Nevada agenda 98% of the time just this Congress, Cortez Masto's record shows just how ineffective she has been at delivering for Nevadan  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued the following news release: It's a disappointing day for Nevada Senate watchers because Nevada's least effective Senator's scheduled appearances with Joe Manchin were cancelled. What Nevadans would have seen on the campaign trail was a tale of two very different Senators. Cortez Masto recently voted to allow critical race theory to be taught in schools, use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions even for babies with Down Syn  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Aug. 25 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release: Attorney General Aaron D. Ford announced Nevada finalized an intrastate allocation agreement with all of the state's counties and litigating cities, which will provide a mechanism for the allocation of any opioid-related settlement funds in the state. While Nevada will not be joining the recently announced multistate settlements with Johnson & Johnson's U.S.-based Janssen Pharmaceutical Comp  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Aug. 20 -- Gov. Stephen Sisolak, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Following a unanimous vote from the Nevada State Board of Health (BOH), Governor Steve Sisolak signed emergency regulations that require state universities, colleges and community colleges to implement a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for enrollment after Nov. 1, 2021. "I am grateful to the Board of Health for passing an emergency regulation today to require students attending in-person classes at   more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Aug. 24 -- Gov. Stephen Sisolak, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Today Governor Steve Sisolak signed Executive Order 2021-18, which calls for the creation of the Nevada Habitat Conservation Framework (HCF). The order aims to reverse the long-term trend of loss of Nevada's wild landscapes, which have suffered from climate change, wildfire, invasive species, and habitat fragmentation. "Nevada's wild landscapes provide the clear air, clean water and open space th  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Aug. 28 -- Gov. Stephen Sisolak, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced the eighth and final round of winners for Vax Nevada Days, a public health incentive program launched in July. In Las Vegas, the Governor was joined by Steve Hill, CEO of the Las Vegas and Convention and Visitors Authority; Treasurer Zach Conine; Senator Jacky Rosen; Congresswoman Dina Titus; GOED Director Michael Brown; Clark County Commissioner Tick Seger  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 28 -- The Nevada Democratic Party issued the following news release: Nevada State Democratic Party Chair Judith Whitmer released the following statement encouraging Congress to extend the federal eviction moratorium in light of the August 26 Supreme Court ruling. "The Supreme Court very clearly ruled yesterday that the CDC does not have the power to declare a federal eviction moratorium, but Congress does. Whether or not you agree with the Supreme Court ruling is irrele  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 27 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a 20-state coalition demanding that the US Department of Justice seek to reverse a Nevada District Court's decision in United States v. Carrillo-Lopez, which recently struck down as unconstitutional 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1326, the federal immigration statute that criminalizes the illegal reentry of illegal aliens who have previously been removed from the United States. The  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 23 (TNSOps) -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following statement by Michael Gardner, president and CEO of UNLV Health and vice dean of clinical affairs at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, on Aug. 21, 2021: * * * Ever since the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV opened in 2017, you've come to know its group practice as UNLV Medicine. During this time, you could feel confident when you visited any one of our 17 clinics that you were bei  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 28 (TNSOps) -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2021: It was in 1999, while she was a flight attendant on a layover in Frankfurt, Germany, when her love affair with triathlons surfaced. Kim Case-Nichols, now the executive director of space and facilities for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, remembers the large crowd exploding in cheers and chants as participants in a 140.6-mile Ironman Triathlon jostle  more