Nevada officials on Tuesday outlined drastic cuts to the state's Medicaid program that include plans to ration adult diapers, eliminate denture and hearing-aid programs, and force personal care assistants to buy their own disposable gloves. State lawmakers learned of the cuts at a committee hearing in which health officials said adult day care programs, vision services and outpatient programs ...

The state is facing a $900 million budget deficit, yet the public has heard few specific details or plans to address it. Gov. Jim Gibbons has tightly controlled information coming out of his administration. Why? As David McGrath Schwartz reported Sunday, Gibbons spokesman Dan Burns said the governorÕs office ...

Nevada's budget is so far out of balance that by one account the state could lay off every worker paid from the general fund and still be $300 million in the red. The economic downturn has hit so hard that prisons may be ...