Health officials in Nevada are requiring all students at the state’s public universities and colleges to show proof of COVID-19 vaccinations in order to enroll in classes for the spring semester. The new policy, which was unanimously approved on Aug. 20 by the Nevada Board of Health at an emergency meeting, adds the requirement into…
Nevada College Students Must Get COVID-19 Vaccines to Enroll for Spring 2022
Ex-Nevada Inmate Gets Life for 1984 Colorado Hammer Killings
CENTENNIAL, Colo.—A former Nevada prison inmate was sentenced Tuesday to three consecutive life sentences in the long-unsolved 1984 hammer killings of three Colorado family members, including a 7-year-old girl, inside their suburban Denver home. Sixty-one-year-old Alex Ewing was convicted Aug. 6 of first-degree murder after a two-day trial in which prosecutors contended Ewing used a…
NFL’s Raiders Will Require Fans to Show Vaccination Proof or Get Jab at Entrance
The Las Vegas Raiders are requiring all spectators at home games in the upcoming NFL season to show proof-of-vaccination documentation, or get inoculated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus at Allegiant Stadium prior to home games. The announcement came hours after Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, said on Monday that large events in…
Feds: 4 Members of MS-13 Indicted in String of Las-Vegas Murders
Four Nevada-based MS-13 gang members were indicted by a federal grand jury for the alleged killing of 10 people in a Las Vegas area, authorities confirmed Wednesday. The suspects charged in the superseding indictment were identified as Luis Reynaldo Reyes-Castillo, 27; David Arturo Perez-Manchame, 22; Joel Vargas-Escobar, 25; and Alexander De Jesus Figueroa-Torres, 25, the Department…
Nevada Mandates Weekly COVID-19 Testing for Unvaccinated Government Workers
The state of Nevada announced it would require weekly COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated government workers starting this month. The rule will go into effect starting Aug. 15. Individuals who are not fully vaccinated, meaning they haven’t received two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, will have to submit their results to a human resources…
Small Business Group Calls on Nevada Governor to End Federal Unemployment Benefits
Nevada’s largest small business group asked Gov. Steve Sisolak to stop accepting federal unemployment benefits in a letter it released on Thursday. The National Federation of Independent Business Nevada (NFIB) argued in the letter, which was dated last Friday, that the combination of Nevada’s unemployment benefits and the federal benefits essentially pays an unemployed person $15…
Western Wildfires: California Blaze Crosses Into Nevada
GARDNERVILLE, Nev.—A Northern California wildfire crossed into Nevada, prompting new evacuations, but better weather has been helping crews battling the nation’s largest blaze in southern Oregon. The Tamarack Fire south of Lake Tahoe had burned more than 68 square miles of timber and head-high chaparral in national forest land. It erupted on July 4 and…
‘We Have to Stand Up’: Rex Steninger on Defending the Constitution
Americans need to take action to defend the Constitution with the country’s future at stake, says Rex Steninger, the commissioner of Elko County, Nevada. “We have to stand up, wake up, start pushing back or we’re going to lose this country,” Steninger told The Epoch Times. Two Nevada counties passed a resolution last month declaring that federal…
Surging California Wildfire Prompts Nevada Evacuations
BECKWOURTH, Calif.—A Northern California wildfire exploding through bone-dry timber prompted Nevada authorities to evacuate a border-area community as flames leapt on ridgetops of nearby mountains. The Beckwourth Complex—a merging of two lightning-caused fires—headed into Saturday showing no sign of slowing its rush northeast from the Sierra Nevada forest region after doubling in size only a…
Aftershocks Expected for Days After California, Nevada Quake
SAN FRANCISCO—A magnitude 6 earthquake jolted both sides of the California-Nevada border, tossed boulders onto a major roadway, and was felt as far off as Las Vegas and even San Francisco, with days of aftershocks predicted, authorities said. The quake shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday was centered south of Lake Tahoe near Walker, a rural…
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