Far from Searchlight, Sen. Harry Reid held a cocktail party fundraiser Friday in New York City hosted by Marianne Nestor Cassini, who runs Oleg Cassini Inc., the fashion design company named after her late husband. Women's Wear Daily sent a reporter...

Sen. Dean Heller's approval dipped among Nevadans after he voted this month against stricter background checks for gun purchases, according to a poll released today and promoted by backers of President Barack Obama. The survey by Public Policy...

The Interior Department was put on the hot seat Thursday when Nevada lawmakers chewed out one of its officials for delivering written testimony that was out of date and contained errors about a land bill for Lyon County. “Can you describe for me how...

The U.S. Senate has signaled that it expects the Bureau of Land Management to "collaborate" with western states looking to avert an endangered species listing for the sage grouse. Before it recessed Saturday morning for a two-week break, senators...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate has been given the okay to begin considering Las Vegas attorney Jennifer Dorsey to become a federal judge in Nevada, officials said Monday. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., gave the green light to the Senate Judiciary...

An incumbent Las Vegas councilman is betting a 4-year-old proposal to charge drivers to use local highways will take a toll on his opponent's campaign. Ward 6 Councilman Steve Ross is attacking challenger Suzette LaGrange by alleging she supported a...

Salomon Melgen, the wealthy South Florida eye doctor at the center of a controversy that has swirled around New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, also sought to build connections with other top Democrats, including Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, according to a...

Sen. Harry Reid has gotten blowback following a speech Tuesday that coupled the deadly Marine Corps accident at the Hawthorne Army Depot and spending cuts to military training and maintenance. Reid, the Senate majority leader from Nevada, did not...

The drama surrounding Sen. Dean Heller’s office suite may be coming to an end. Sources confirmed a report in Roll Call tonight that Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, has put in a claim for Heller’s row of office rooms on the third floor of the Russell...

The story has received wide play on Capitol Hill but U.S. Sen. Dean Heller on Tuesday dismissed a brouhaha over his coveted office as a joke that went wrong. "I just think it is all silliness," Heller said about the report that his staff was making...

When Sen. Dean Heller was appointed to the U.S. Senate in May 2011, he inherited a primo office suite on the third floor of the Russell Building across from the U.S. Capitol. Previously occupied by the departed Nevada Sen John Ensign, It was not an...

Rep. Joe Heck has established a personal political action committee as a strategy to build friendships and influence colleagues in the U.S. House. Paperwork setting up the Full House PAC was submitted this week to the Federal Election Committee, a...

Two weeks before candidate filing and the race for the Las Vegas City Council Ward 6 seat held by Steve Ross is already taking shape, albeit vaguely. Political pundit Jon Ralston reported commercial real estate agent and self-described conservative...

Sen. Dean Heller’s new term comes with a full workload as he said today he’ll be sitting on five legislative committees. The Nevada Republican newly sworn in for a full six-year term will join the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee...

How painful is the GOP’s examination of the Republican White House loss to President Barack Obama? Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour compared it to the need for a “proctology exam” on Wednesday during the opening day of the Republican Governors...