Tagging on the new pedestrian bridge over Losee Road and Interstate 15 to get tagged sparks North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee to call for action against graffiti, calling it a regional problem.
Gov. Brian Sandoval is popular with voters and most political observers expect him to have an easy time winning re-election in November, but a passel of Republican opponents are trying to do the unthinkable and beat him in the June 10 primary, and a bunch of Democrats hope to face him in the general election in November.
In what is likely the hottest primary race in Nevada this year, three Republicans seek the nod from voters to win a spot on the November general election ballot to succeed Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, who has faced plenty of close races in the past, has only one Democratic opponent in the June 10 primary, but the Republican primary is far more interesting with two Hispanics.
Four Northern Nevadans with private-sector backgrounds and no political experience are competing to represent the Democratic Party in the 2nd Congressional District race in the November general election.
Erin Bilbray is trying to follow in the footsteps of her father, ex-Rep. James Bilbray, making her first run for Congress in a midterm election year in which the GOP is once again considered to have more momentum than Democrats.
Freshman U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., says he has 700,000 bosses — all constituents living in his 4th Congressional District, which stretches across 52,000 square miles of the southern half of Nevada.
The three Republican candidates for state controller in the June primary all tout their background and experience for the job and argue that they are the most qualified to represent the GOP in the race for the state constitutional office in the November general election.
Republican state Sen. Barbara Cegavske can’t run again in District 8 because of term limits so three Republican and two Democrats are trying to replace her, while she runs for secretary of state.
Four Republicans are vying in the primary for the opportunity to challenge Democratic Sen. Justin Jones in November in District 9.
The Las Vegas City Council’s version of the blame game went on for three hours last week, as the big boys and the little guys argued over who is to blame for the drunken follies occurring at the Fremont Street Experience.
GOP Assemblyman John Hambrick’s bid for a fourth term is being challenged by Republican Mark Slotta, who says Hambrick is too conservative on social issues.
Six Democrats are vying to represent the residents of Assembly District 3, including a candidate facing criminal charges. Nakia Woodson, 39, was charged last year with eight felonies including theft, public assistance fraud and unlawful acts concerning food stamps.
A pair each of Republicans and Democrats are vying for the Assembly District 4 seat, with Republican incumbent Michele Fiore making her first bid for re-election.
Republicans crowd the field of the Assembly District 5 primary race, with five GOP candidates campaigning for a chance to face the lone Democrat in November’s general election. The Republicans represent a variety of occupational backgrounds, including a computer scientist, lawyer and Boy Scouts of America commissioner in the west-central Las Vegas Valley. Assembly District 5 voters in recent years have put a Democrat in office.
Assemblyman Harvey Munford is facing his first primary election challenge in a decade. It could also be his last.
District 7 Assemblywoman Dina Neal is starting to get a strong sense of deja vu. She is facing the same opponent she beat on her way to a second term two years ago and, if she makes it to a Nov. 4 runoff, she will face the same Republican foe she toppled by 46 points in the 2012 general election.
Three first-time candidates with vastly different backgrounds are squaring off in the Democratic primary race for Assembly District 9. Clark County public defender Steve Yeager, 35, financial advisor Kelly W. Mercer, 33, and residential care facility owner Joe Tinio, 62, are competing to replace outgoing Assemblyman Andrew Martin, who is running for state controller after residency questions clouded his 2012 win.
It’s a race that will likely be decided in the primary.
In his third bid for elected office, Jack Brooks is trying to unseat longtime legislator Maggie Carlton in the Democratic primary race for Assembly District 14.
The 36-foot high Tornado is the first slide of its kind in Las Vegas. It opened this weekend.
Three Republicans will square off in the primary for the right to represent their party in what could be one of the more competitive Assembly contests in this year’s general election. With two-term Assemblyman Cresent Hardy giving up his seat to run for Congress, there is no incumbent in District 19.
In Assembly District 21, two Republican legal minds are vying for the chance to run against Democrat incumbent Andy Eisen in the November election. Derek W. Armstrong and Andrew W. Coates will face off in the June 10 primary election to determine who will take on Eisen.
The primary for the GOP nomination in the Assembly District 22 race will likely determine the winner for the seat with no Democratic challenger. Registered Republicans hold a 41 percent-to-34 percent advantage over Democrats in the district, one of only seven Assembly districts in the county with a GOP advantage.
Republicans in Assembly District 29 will have to decide between Amy Groves and Stephen Silberkraus in the June 10 primary to determine who will represent the Grand Old Party in the Novemeber election. The June winner will face off against Democrat Lesley Cohen, a Henderson lawyer who was appointed in 2012 by the Clark County Commission after April Mastroluca resigned for family reasons.
Four experienced Democrats have joined the fight to fill the District 34 seat soon to be vacated by term-limited Assembly Majority Leader William Horne.
Two election challengers disagree with Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani’s consistent vote against a sales tax increase as she runs for a third and final four-year term in District E.
Clark County Commissioner Susan Brager is running for a third and final four-year term in a crowded field with three opponents also seeking the Democratic nomination. Brager’s challengers in the primary are Susan Bonaventura, Ellen Nakamura and former state senator Mike Schneider. Two Republicans, Joe Krathwohl and Mitchell Tracy, are seeking the GOP nod.
The race for the Clark County Commission District G seat has attracted a candidate who stood before commissioners a year ago and pleaded with them to not abolish his office.