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Look for sunny skies today. The high today should be around 48.
The White Pine County Commission on a 4-1 vote yesterday fired Finance Director Kathy Workman. The vote comes during the busiest time of the year for the county as budget submission to the state is upcoming very quickly. Commission chair Paula Carson.
The only negative vote came from Commissioner Janet Vancamp, who resigned from the commission during the closing public comment, and aimed comments at the four remaining commissioners on their treatment of county staff.
The other major item on the agenda saw the attempt to restrict public comment at the beginning of the meeting to agenda items only lost by a 2-3 vote. Only Commission Chair Paula Carson and Vice Chair Tim Pawley voted for the item.
The Elko Police Department reports two arrests made Tuesday.
Officers took Shaun Herzog of Elko into custody on a charge of luring a child or person with a mental illness using a computer. Due to the seriousness of the charge, the Elko SWAT Team was called in. Police say Herzog initially refused to come out but was arrested after a distraction device was deployed.
Earlier in the day, Corey Pavlinek of Spring Creek was arrested following a traffic stop near Mountain City Highway. A police K-9 alerted to narcotics, and officers reportedly found about 17 grams of methamphetamine. Pavlinek was booked into the Elko County Jail on drug and paraphernalia charges.
The State of Nevada has moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Trump Administration over access to the state’s voter rolls.
The motion was filed Wednesday in response to a Justice Department request seeking Nevada’s full computerized voter registration list, covering nearly 2.2 million voters.
State officials say they have offered to provide publicly available voter data through normal procedures, but refuse to release sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, or ID card data.
Nevada argues the DOJ has misapplied federal law and failed to properly justify its request, adding that the data sought is protected under multiple federal privacy statutes.
The push toward electric vehicles is losing steam, as federal EV tax credits expired last month and charging problems persist across Nevada.
EV driver and blogger Scott Allison says much of the state’s charging network no longer works. While planning a trip north, Allison reviewed all 29 fast-charging sites built under the Nevada Electric Highway program and found only seven still operational.
He confirmed multiple chargers offline in places like Alamo, Amargosa Valley, Jean, and Indian Springs. The failures leave gaps of more than 200 miles on major routes, forcing EV drivers to detour through California or risk running out of power.
Allison says while Tesla has expanded charging along Interstate 15, rural Nevada has largely been left behind.
A judge has set an emergency hearing for February 4th as Southern Nevada residents seek to stop parts of the state’s water conservation law.
The lawsuit challenges rules requiring the removal of so-called nonfunctional grass and limits on irrigation by the end of the year. The residents claim enforcement by the Southern Nevada Water Authority has led to the loss of thousands of trees and millions of dollars in damage.
They argue SNWA is overstepping its authority by deciding which grass must be removed and say homeowners have no way to appeal those decisions.
If the judge grants a temporary restraining order, SNWA would temporarily lose the power to label grass as nonfunctional.