Crest Insurance Group acquired trucking and transportation specialist Crossroads Insurance Services in Henderson, Nevada.

The Henderson location will become the hub of the Crest’s trucking and transportation division and will provide the logistical base to expand the agency’s services to existing Nevada clients, according to Crest. Crest adds Frank Maglalang, Crossroads’ founder, with more than 30 years of experience in transportation and trucking insurance.

Crest is licensed in 50 states, with a physical presence in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Wyoming. The firm has more than 250 employees.

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The high school sports season is almost over.

All eight spring sports will crown state champions this week. Most of those title races remain wide open heading down the home stretch.

Here’s a breakdown of the state championship events:

Baseball

A new 5A champion will be crowned after the last two — Bishop Gorman and Basic — missed the playoffs. The 5A state tournament begins Thursday at Bishop Gorman.

Palo Verde and Coronado, who both finished second in their respective leagues, advanced to the state tournament. Palo Verde defeated Coronado on Friday for the Southern Region title to earn the South’s No. 1 seed. Coronado will be the South’s No. 2 seed.

Both teams are looking for their second baseball state titles. Palo Verde won the 4A title in 2018 and Coronado won it in 2013.

In 4A, Durango and Silverado face off in a winners’ bracket game Thursday at Faith Lutheran for a spot in Saturday’s title game.

Boys golf

Shadow Ridge, Coronado and Bishop Gorman are the three Southern teams that qualified for the 5A state tournament on Wednesday and Thursday in Pahrump.

Shadow Ridge won the Southern Region title by nine strokes with a team score of 6-over 574. Bishop Gorman won the 5A state title last year.

Doral Academy won the 4A state title Tuesday.

Boys volleyball

Boys volleyball begins the week of state-title action Tuesday. Sunrise Mountain will host the 5A (7 p.m.), 4A (5 p.m.) and 3A (3 p.m.) state-title matches.

Coronado and Palo Verde will play for the 5A state title. The teams split their two regular-season meetings, each winning in four sets.

Coronado won the Mountain League title on a tiebreaker and knocked out two-time defending champion Shadow Ridge in the semifinals Thursday. Palo Verde swept Desert League champion Green Valley in the other semifinal.

Bishop Gorman and Basic will meet for the 4A title. Two-time reigning champion Boulder City faces Virgin Valley for the 3A title.

Softball

Palo Verde and Coronado emerged out of the challenging Mountain League to advance to the state tournament, which begins Thursday at Bishop Gorman.

The Panthers won the Southern Region title Friday and will be the South’s No. 1 seed. Coronado will be the South’s No. 2 seed.

Palo Verde, which qualified for last year’s state tournament, is seeking its fourth softball state title. Coronado is looking for its first. Both teams will have to get through Northern champ and reigning state champion Douglas, which is 30-4 and has won 16 straight games.

The 4A state tournament continues Thursday at Faith Lutheran. Desert Oasis and Sierra Vista play in a winners’ bracket game Thursday for a spot in Saturday’s title game.

Swimming and diving

The state’s top swimmers and divers will meet in Las Vegas for the 5A, 4A and 3A state tournaments.

Divers will compete Friday at UNLV’s Buchanan Natatorium. 4A swimmers will race Thursday at Pavilion Center Pool, while 5A and 3A swimmers will compete Saturday.

The Palo Verde boys and Coronado girls are the reigning 5A champions entering the state meet.

Palo Verde, which has won the last nine boys titles, remains the favorite this year after winning the Southern Region title last week by 127 points over Bishop Gorman.

Coronado will have a tougher time defending the girls title. Palo Verde won the girls region title, edging Coronado 433.5-432.

The 4A state meet begins Thursday. The Sierra Vista boys and Tech girls won the 4A Desert Region titles, while the Basic boys and Doral Academy girls won the 4A Mountain Region titles. The Liberty boys and Faith Lutheran girls won the 4A state titles last year, but both moved up to 5A.

Track and field

The Centennial girls’ run of dominance in track and field came to an end last year when Liberty won the 5A girls title. That snapped the Bulldogs’ run of 10 championships in a row.

Centennial is back to being favorites this year. The Bulldogs ran away with the 5A girls Southern Region title Saturday, finishing 46 points head of Liberty. Shadow Ridge won the boys region title by 26 points over Liberty.

The state meet will take place Friday and Saturday in Carson City.

Desert Oasis will host the 4A state meet beginning Friday. The Mojave boys and Arbor View girls won the 4A Mountain Region titles. The Desert Oasis boys and girls won the Desert Region titles. The Shadow Ridge boys and Palo Verde girls are the reigning champions, but both moved up to 5A after offseason realignment.

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State championship schedule

Baseball

5A: Thursday-Saturday at Bishop Gorman and Faith Lutheran

4A: Thursday-Saturday at Bishop Gorman and Faith Lutheran

3A: Thursday-Saturday at Churchill County High School

2A: Thursday-Saturday at Durango High School

1A: Thursday-Saturday at Fernley High School

Boys golf

5A: Wednesday, Thursday at Mountain Falls Golf Club, Pahrump

3A: Tuesday, Wednesday at Mountain Falls Golf Club, Pahrump

2A: Tuesday, Wednesday at Ruby View Golf Course, Elko

Boys volleyball

At Sunrise Mountain

5A: 7 p.m. Tuesday

4A: 5 p.m. Tuesday

3A: 3 p.m. Tuesday

Softball

5A: Thursday-Saturday at Bishop Gorman and Faith Lutheran

4A: Thursday-Saturday at Bishop Gorman and Faith Lutheran

3A: Thursday-Saturday at Churchill County High School

2A: Thursday-Saturday at Durango High School

1A: Thursday-Saturday at Fernley High School

Swimming and diving

5A and 3A: Friday (Diving) at UNLV’s Buchanan Natatorium and Saturday (Swimming) at Pavilion Center Pool

4A: Thursday (Swimming) at Pavilion Center Pool and Friday (Diving) at UNLV’s Buchanan Natatorium

Track and field

Class 5A, 3A, 2A and 1A: Friday and Saturday at Carson City High School

Class 4A: Friday and Saturday at Desert Oasis High School

Plans to turn Yucca Mountain into the country’s nuclear waste bin are at a standstill, but discussions of restarting the proposal have drawn concerns — and different opinions — from Nevada’s elected officials and those seeking Sen. Jacky Rosen’s seat in Congress.

For years, the controversial proposal to turn Yucca Mountain into a federal nuclear waste repository was met with strong opposition from Nevada politicians on both sides of the aisle.

Efforts to move forward on the proposal have come up over the years since the Department of Energy recommended it as a national nuclear waste repository in 2002, but each time they came to a screeching halt — largely due to the resounding bipartisan opposition from Nevada’s federal officials, and the political influence of the battleground state.

The late Democratic Sen. Harry Reid was a staunch opponent and used his leadership position to block the project. Republican leaders like Rep. Mark Amodei, former Gov. Brian Sandoval, former Attorney General Adam Laxalt and former Sen. Dean Heller also opposed the plan to ship states’ nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, located 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Nevada’s federal politicians have worked to shut down the project once and for all, introducing bills that would explore repurposing Yucca Mountain for alternative uses or would give Nevadans informed consent for the project. But those bills haven’t become law.

Concerns rose again about renewed efforts to store nuclear waste in Nevada during a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee meeting in April when its chair indicated support for restarting Yucca.

Subcommittee Chair Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., said the “political objections of one state not based on scientific reality” blocked the repository from being licensed.

“I’ve been to Yucca Mountain, I’ve stood on top of that mountain and I thought, if we can’t put the nuclear waste of the nation here, we’re not going to be able to put it anywhere,” Duncan said in the meeting.

Project 2025, a collection of policy proposals to reshape the government after a Republican victory in the 2024 presidential election, also includes plans to have the Nuclear Regulatory Commission review the Department of Energy’s permit application for Yucca Mountain, which it says remains a viable option for waste management. The project is organized by the Heritage Foundation and run by former Trump administration officials, although former President Donald Trump has also opposed turning Yucca Mountain into a nuclear waste repository.

Further concerns cropped up in April when the Los Angeles Times published audio from 2022 of Nevada GOP U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown indicating he did not oppose opening the facility and calling the failure to do so an “incredible loss of revenue for our state.”

Rosen has been firmly opposed to the project, and during a hearing on April 18, highlighted Nevada’s history with nuclear weapons development that exposed Nevadans to toxic levels of radiation.

“I firmly oppose any policies that would put Nevadans at risk again,” Rosen said.

With the June 11 primary just a month away, the Review-Journal asked all of the Republican Senate candidates where they stand on the project.

Sam Brown

Frontrunner Brown said in a statement that he has not committed to supporting the opening of Yucca Mountain. He stressed, however, that he would consider all thoroughly vetted future proposals, with the safety of Nevadans as his top priority and ensuring the proposals are economically beneficial.

“Leadership means considering all economic opportunities that could better support the lives of Nevadans,” Brown said in a statement.

Jeff Gunter

Gunter, former ambassador to Iceland under the Trump administration, said he is “resolutely opposed” to the project.

“It’s an absolute overreach by the federal government to impose such a hazardous burden on the great state of Nevada without the consent of its people,” Gunter said in a statement.

“This is America, and we don’t dump our problems in someone else’s backyard without their agreement,” he said. “As your senator, I will staunchly resist any efforts to revive this project, protecting Nevada and ensuring our government listens to the people, not just bureaucrats and lobbyists.”

Jim Marchant

Marchant, a former assemblyman, said he is against the project in its current form, but he is for using Yucca Mountain to solve problems throughout the country.

He said spent fuel is currently residing in around 121 sites across the country above ground, and taxpayers are paying $2 million a day for that storage.

Marchant proposes reopening the licensing process of Yucca Mountain to be used for recycling the nuclear waste material and used in “walkaway safe” small modular nuclear reactors to produce nuclear energy.

“The state government is going to make so much money processing this material and using it to power our country,” he said. His goal is for Nevadans to not have to pay very much for energy.

Tony Grady

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Tony Grady said he will not support the Yucca Mountain project.

“Nevadans have expressed they do not want Yucca Mountain and I will protect them from being our country’s nuclear wasteland,” he said in a statement.

Garn Mabey Jr.

Mabey, also a former assemblyman, said he strongly opposes reopening Yucca Mountain because it is located above an aquifer and transporting waste through the state would place Nevadans at risk if an accident or a malicious act were to occur.

“Any potential financial incentives being dangled to entice us to support reopening never will justify reopening Yucca Mountain for the storage of high-level nuclear waste,” he said in a statement. “The risks are too high! If elected, I will use my power in the U.S. Senate to prevent it from being reopened.”

Stephanie Phillips

Phillips, a Las Vegas real estate broker, said with any decision she makes, she asks a lot of questions, gathers the facts and does her homework.

“The last time they tried to get Yucca through, the majority of Nevadans didn’t want nuclear waste in their ‘backyard’,” she said. “I realize the potential revenue for Nevada would be great for us; however, there are pros and cons. I would take it to the Nevada voters for comment and opinions. Elected officials are supposed to be representing the will of The People and my decisions will reflect just that.”

Bill Conrad

Conrad, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, said he agrees with Dr. Scott Tyler from an interview conducted six years ago. He said there is a risk of groundwater contamination, geological concerns and an issue with transporting the material safely. He also said Yucca Mountain is located on land significant to Native American tribes, particularly the Western Shoshone.

Conrad said at this time, “when looking at the science and the effects on Las Vegas and our state, I do not support using Yucca Mountain as a centralized nuclear depository.”

Barry Lindemann

Lindemann, an asset manager, said he believes Yucca Mountain can be repurposed.

“If the people of Nevada refuse Yucca Mountain as a repository for nuclear waste, then we need to utilize the space for power production,” he said in a statement.

Lindemann said developments in nuclear waste are showing signs of the ability to burn spent fuel rods while producing electricity.

Eddie Hamilton

Longtime political candidate Hamilton said he is in favor of converting Yucca Mountain into a new technology “reprocessing” nuclear power plant and facility. He is against using it as a strictly passive dumping landfill for nuclear waste materials.

Tony Grady, Vincent Rego and Ronda Kennedy did not return requests for comment.

Contact Jessica Hill at jehill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @jess_hillyeah on X.