Nevada workforce

The nonprofit Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties holds a public breakfast meeting every other month. The next meeting is Thursday, Oct. 12, 9 a.m. at the Silver Springs Community Center.

Guest speakers include Ashle Doran, who will give a presentation on Comstock Youth Works' successful summer job skills and paid internship program for teens throughout Lyon County.

Nevada is one of four additional states to receive approval from the U.S. Department of Education for its career and technical education plan submitted under the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act.

CARSON CITY — The Governor’s Office of Workforce Innovation announced Friday it has launched its Work-Based Learning and pilot Pay-For-Performance grant request for proposals. Eligible organizations are encouraged to apply for funding from $50,000 to $200,000.

RENO — Google continued its Grow with Google tour in Reno this week by announcing a sponsorship grant totalling $100,000 that was presented to JOIN Inc.

JOIN recently partnered with the Carson City marketing agency, In Plain Sight, to change that. "We have been one of Northern Nevada's best kept secrets, but hopefully that will change soon," Castle said in a phone interview with NNBW. AGC is in the preconstruction phase of developing a 3,000 squ ...

On July 27th, 2017, Lynn Beteag, Managing Director, of Nevada State EB-5 Regional Center was a guest speaker to the Reno/Sparks Association of REALTORS. The topic of Beteag’s presentation “The EB-5 Program - Access to Capital through Foreign Investment” explored how local businesses benefit from foreign investment and foreign workforce talent.

WGU Nevada Chancellor Spencer Stewart (left), Nevada Lieutenant Governor Mark Hutchison, WGU President Scott Pulsipher take a selfie at the ...

Western Nevada College students received a job placement boost in its Applied Industrial Technology lab this week — a Panasonic representative spoke of his interest in their skills and futures.

More than a dozen area manufacturing leaders gathered at Western Nevada College in Carson City on Friday to preview the latest technical training initiative in support of the Northern Nevada workforce. Siemens Technik Akademie Barlin, a worldwide leader in automation and mechatronics, is partnering with Western Nevada College to launch the Siemens Mechatronic Systems Certification Program.

More than a dozen area manufacturing leaders are meeting at Western Nevada College today, Friday, to preview the latest technical training initiative in support of the Northern Nevada workforce. Siemens, a worldwide leader in automation and control, has partnered with Western Nevada College as WNC launches the Siemens Mechatronic Systems Certification Program.

CARSON CITY – The U.S. Department of Labor has rejected Nevada’s request for a waiver to consolidate its three workforce investment boards into one, due largely to opposition to the plan by the Southern Nevada panel.

CARSON CITY – More than $27 million in federal job training funds were awarded to two local workforce development boards by the Board of Examiners today despite ongoing concerns about how the money is being spent by the Southern Nevada board, called Workforce Connections.

CARSON CITY – Local elected officials representing the Northern Nevada workforce development agency have endorsed a plan to restructure the delivery of job training funds to Nevadans, including eliminating the two local boards now involved in the process.

CARSON CITY – The Governor’s Workforce Investment Board today unanimously approved a plan to consolidate two local boards in an effort to free up $5 million in federal funds to train the unemployed.

The move, which requires approval from the U.S. Department of Labor, is opposed by Workforce Connections, the Southern Nevada workforce investment board.

CARSON CITY – An audit of the state’s two local workforce investment boards has found the Southern Nevada agency spent nearly twice as much on administration and monitoring of its programs than its northern counterpart.