WINNEMUCCA, Nevada, March 2 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Nevada State Office issued the following news release: The Humboldt River Field Office is currently reviewing a proposed mining exploration Plan of Operations (Plan) in Wildcat Canyon, from Millennial Nevada, LLC. The public is invited to provide comments and concepts for the staff to consider during the development of an environmental assessment for the exploration project. The 30-day scoping perio  more

WINNEMUCCA, Nevada, Feb. 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Nevada State Office issued the following news release: The Humboldt River Field Office of the BLM has finalized the Water Canyon Recreation Area Environmental Assessment and has signed a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Decision Record (DR) for the project. The Water Canyon Nature Trail has been closed since the recreation area bridges were removed in 2016 and 2020. "This local trail is  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 2 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Nevada State Office issued the following news release: The BLM has granted a variance for the Golden Currant Solar Project right-of-way application in coordination with appropriate federal, state, local agencies, Tribes, and public outreach. This begins the National Environmental Policy Act analysis of the project. The Golden Currant Solar Project is a proposed 400-MW utility-scale photovoltaic sola  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 2 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada, Jason M. Frierson, issued the following news release on March 1, 2023: A Las Vegas man was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro to 30 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for submitting fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Relief Loan (EIDL) loan applications seeking more than $1 million under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Se  more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2023: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced that the public comment period for its solar programmatic environmental impact statement will close March 1, 2023. On December 5, 2022, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that the Bureau of Land Management would begin considering updates to its 2012 Western Solar Plan in six southwestern state  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Feb. 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Nevada State Office issued the following news release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Stillwater Field Office is initiating a second 30-day scoping public comment period seeking input in preparation of an environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed Clan Alpine Horse Gather. To help inform the BLM's decision, BLM is seeking public comments and input under Section 106 of the National Histori  more

LOS ANGELES, California, March 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on March 1, 2023: An indictment was unsealed today charging Terren S. Peizer, the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ontrak Inc., a Henderson, Nevada-based publicly traded health care company, for allegedly engaging in an insider trading scheme in which he fraudulently used Rule 10b5-1 trading plans to trade Ontrak stock. "Mr. Peizer is accused of   more