The University of Nevada's Reynolds School of Journalism plans to use a $35,000 grant to establish a Spanish-language reporting team just in time for the run up to the 2016 Presidential election.

Administrators of the Journalism school say that it's important that the Hispanic population within the state can keep track of the 2016 race coverage.

"Washoe County is 23.3 percent Latino, yet there is very limited Spanish language news available for this segment of the northern Nevada community," Nevada Media Alliance Coordinator Vanessa Vancour said, according to My News 4.

"We plan to test a project to engage Latino adults through events journalism, specifically a series of four monthly 'pop-up newsroom' (Noticiero Mòvil) events to be held at locations in the Hispanic community. These events will feature bilingual student journalists discussing their reporting of local and state government and political stories affecting Latinos, live interviews with newsmakers of interest to the Latino community, and structured citizen conversations on current affairs."

The student-run Spanish language reporting team will work with the Nevada Media Alliance to develop bilingual multimedia news coverage to serve the Latino community of northern Nevada. The bilingual reporting team will also work in partnership with Reno Gazette Journal and KNPB journalists.

"These ONA Challenge Fund grants are highly competitive," Reynolds School Dean Al Stavitsky said. "So we're honored that our bilingual news partnership has been recognized as an innovative approach to engaging our region's Latino community." 

In addition to watching the 2016 race for the White House, state residents are also gearing up for the next Senate race following U.S. Senator Harry Reid's retirement announcement earlier this year.

After representing Nevada for nearly three decades in the Senate, the 75-year-old Democrat announced his retirement and quickly endorsed former Democratic state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto as his successor.

In response to his retirement announcement, Masto, the current executive vice chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, thanked Reid for his service and described him a "powerful voice" for Nevada families, reports USA Today Politics.

Meanwhile, there's speculation that Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, the first Hispanic candidate to be elected to a statewide office in Nevada, may also run for Reid's seat.