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First responders are on the scene of an incident on US-6 on Murray Summit. US-6 is closed until further notice. Stay tuned to KELY for updates.
Just a trace of precipitation from last night's snowfall at Yellend Field. Not looking for any more snowfall in the next seven days. Today’s high of 37 will be the lowest daytime high of the week, as it should warm up into the 50s by the weekend.
For the first time, a Capitol Christmas Tree from Nevada took center stage in Washington. “Silver Belle,” a 53-foot red fir from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest near Mt. Rose Highway, was lit on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol last night. Virginia City fourth grader Grady Armstrong helped flip the switch after winning a statewide essay contest. In the essay he talked about life in Nevada.
The ceremony followed a weeks-long journey that carried Silver Belle across Nevada and the country, with communities signing banners and sending ornaments to be displayed in the Capitol. The display also includes a custom tree skirt with handcrafted patches representing all 17 Nevada counties. Silver Belle will shine nightly through the holiday season, marking Nevada’s first appearance in this national tradition.
White Pine County deputies responded to several calls on Monday. Three wild mustangs causing a traffic hazard on a state highway were reported to the Bureau of Land Management. In the city, deputies tagged an illegally parked vehicle for removal and took a report after a resident found their tires slashed. Deputies are also investigating a possible theft involving an online auction business. In two separate cases, they looked into threatening messages—issuing a warning to one sender and documenting a workplace threat in another.
Nevada’s active voter rolls shrank by more than 24,000 in November, according to the Secretary of State’s office. The state now reports just over 2.1 million active registered voters, a month-to-month drop of about 1.1 percent. Officials say the decline is largely the result of list-maintenance work in Washoe County, where 35,000 notices were sent to voters and about 32,000 registrations were inactivated when no response was received.
Every major affiliation saw a decrease. Nonpartisan voters fell the most, dropping nearly 12,000. Republicans declined by about 4,400, Democrats by more than 5,400, and minor parties saw smaller but steady losses. Nevada’s electorate now breaks down to roughly 37 percent nonpartisan, 28 percent Republican, 28 percent Democratic, and the remainder split among the Independent American, Libertarian, and other minor parties.
Nevadans will see the final supermoon of 2025 on Thursday night as the “Cold Moon” rises in the east. The moon reaches its closest point to Earth at the same time it turns full, making it appear up to 14 percent larger and as much as 30 percent brighter, especially on the horizon.
Planetarium Director Paul McFarlane says this is the third and last supermoon of the year; the previous one was November’s Harvest Moon. The Cold Moon also climbs higher than any other full moon because of its timing near the winter solstice. Sky watchers can catch it from dusk through dawn.
The Environmental Protection Agency is warning consumers after unregistered and potentially dangerous disinfectants were found on shelves at El Super and Smart & Final stores in Arizona, California, and Nevada. The EPA says parent company Chedraui USA sold three products at El Super—S&C Sanitizer, S&C Disinfectant, and Prinex Sanysol—and one product at Smart & Final—Perfect Professional Advanced Multi-Surface Sanitizer—all without proper registration or verified safety claims.
Inspectors say the S&C products contained quaternary ammonia, a high-toxicity ingredient that requires a danger label, while the Prinex and Perfect Professional sanitizers made unverified germ-killing claims. Chedraui will pay more than $472,000 in penalties and has removed the products from stores. The EPA says the case is a reminder for consumers to check that disinfectants are properly labeled and federally registered before using them.
The Mega Millions jackpot has been hit again—just five drawings after a $983 million prize was claimed in Georgia. A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Tuesday night’s drawing to win an estimated $90 million, or $41.9 million cash. It’s the sixth jackpot won so far this year and the shortest jackpot run since 2023.
More than a million winning tickets were sold nationwide during the brief run, including a $4 million second-tier winner in Georgia and 29 third-tier prizes worth up to $100,000 in 15 states. Altogether, players collected nearly $26 million in non-jackpot prizes.
A drugmaker is testing a new weight-loss treatment—but this time, it’s for cats. The New York Times reports Okava Pharmaceuticals is trying out a tiny implant that releases a GLP-1 drug, the same class used in humans, to help overweight felines eat less and slim down.
The idea shows early promise, but vets say it’ll still take major trials, likely high costs, and plenty of old-fashioned diet and exercise before pudgy pets see real results.
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That’s your morning news from the state of Nevada