Attorneys for the Wilton Rancheria and the local casino workers’ union argued, before 9th Circuit judges Thursday morning, a case involving hundreds of Sky River workers in Elk Grove, who Unite Here Local 49 have been organizing for years.

Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada each want to appoint, not elect, the judges that sit on their business courts. But state constitutions vary as to whether they allow those appointments.

Changes are coming to Medicaid that could impact hundreds of thousands here in the Silver State.

Advocates are raising concerns about a report from Immigration and Customs Enforcement showing a 31% increase in Nevada detainees since mid-September, with one activist saying detention facilities here are not equipped to house and care for the expanded population.

United States immigration courts face a growing backlog of over 3.5 million cases. More than half of these are asylum applications. This backlog puts pressure on the U.S. asylum offices to adjudicate claims quickly. Nevertheless, asylum seekers often wait for years to receive a hearing.

The Labor Department is closing the book on the Biden administration’s iteration of the fiduciary rule and dropping its defense of the regulation in court.

From JD Vance to film tax credits, antisemitism to ICE detention, panelists tackled some of the biggest issues of the moment at The Nevada Independent’s sixth annual IndyFest conference. For those who missed the ideas festival held Nov. 14-15 at the Durango Casino and Resort in Las Vegas, The Indy is sharing full videos of the discussions.

It all started with a fire drill. This past December, approximately 13 firefighter crews arrived at a Las Vegas tunnel dug by Boring Company, Elon Musk’s $5.6 billion underground transportation startup. After two hours practicing the rescue of a 200-pound mannequin dummy, two of the firefighters ended up in the hospital with chemical burns from the “muck” liquid that pools in the base of the tunnels—a mixture of chemicals, groundwater, and earth. Nevada’s workplace safety regulator launched an investigation and issued three “willful” citations against Boring Co.—the most aggressive violations the state OSHA can levy.

Elon Musk has been pushing hard for companies to exit Delaware and reincorporate elsewhere, following the lead of his companies Tesla and SpaceX. Coinbase became the latest to take the leap, announcing this week that it was moving its state of incorporation to Texas from Delaware. Despite Musk’s proclamation that “Delaware continues to bleed companies,” those departing the state make up a distinct minority.

On May 28, hours after Nevada’s workplace safety agency served notice of more than $400,000 in fines to Elon Musk’s $5.6 billion tunneling startup the Boring Company, the phone rang at Nevada governor Joe Lombardo’s office.

This year, the immigrant community in Las Vegas has been rocked by the intensification of ICE detentions (just look at the abrupt closure of Broadacres this summer, for example). But Professor Michael Kagan, who runs the UNLV Immigration Clinic, explains to co-host Dayvid Figler why things are likely to get much, much worse next year — and what we can do in the face of it all.

Attorney Adam Crayk expects immigration enforcement in Utah to get much more aggressive. The recent public arrest at the airport that went viral is just one early indicator.