Excessive spending at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority highlights the need for a special agency to investigate financial abuse within state and local government, Democratic and Republican lawmakers say.
Bill presenters Sens. Leader Aaron Ford, D-Las Vegas, and Yvanna Cancela, D-Las Vegas, claim Nevada could raise the minimum wage without hurting the economy or killing jobs.
A bill requiring new public buildings to include baby changing tables accessible to both men and women won unanimous approval Tuesday in the Nevada Senate.
Donald Penn is widely considered to have had among the best seasons in 2016 of any NFL left tackle. But there is one play he regrets more than any other.
A soccer coach has been arrested in connection with a lewdness investigation involving a child.
Alex Meruelo and Meruelo Group, owners of the Grand Sierra Resort Hotel & Casino in Reno, have agreed to buy the SLS Las Vegas for an undisclosed amount from Las Vegas Resort Holdings LLC.
Spring Valley residents have scored another victory in a fight with a nearby asphalt plant, but not everyone is happy.
Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper had plenty of questions for retired Detroit Lions star Calvin Johnson, a likely future Pro Football Hall of Famer who is a special visitor at organized team activities this week.
The Nevada Senate gave unanimous approval Tuesday to a bill defining brain death and protocols on how it should be determined.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly Ways and Means Committee approved a bill Tuesday providing $10 million a year in tax credits to the film industry.
The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday passed a bill that forbids firearm possession by people convicted of stalking or with extended orders of protection against them.
Some parrots can live 60-80 years, outliving their owners and leaving them needing a new home. A bird club started the Southern Nevada Parrot Education Rescue & Rehoming Society, or SNPERRS, more than 10 years ago in an effort to help.
Nevada is one step closer to having a designated state office that combats cyber threats and breaches.
The Nevada Assembly passed a measure intended to make net metering a realistic choice for Silver State utility customers.
The NCAA basketball rules committee decided against going to quarters, widening the lane and extending the 3-point line. Coaches are split on whether they prefer those potential changes.
The entire public education system is so embroiled in politics that it cannot effectively serve its customers, the children.
Numerous area football players have received early scholarship offers during the NCAA evaluation period that runs through May 31.
The Senate intelligence committee says it will subpoena two of former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s businesses.
Robert Sharpe III, an inmate at High Desert State Prison, died Thursday, according to the Nevada Corrections Department.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway learned Tuesday that its long-awaited second Cup Series race will be the first stop of the 2018 NASCAR playoffs.
After years of limiting how players could celebrate following touchdowns, the league decided to loosen up its rules, allowing players to again use the football as a prop, celebrate as a group and roll around again if they choose.
Gasoline prices and airfares are going up, but so are the number of visitors traveling to Las Vegas during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Taxpayers already have spent over $1 million to provide legal representation for the 19 men accused of participating in the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville.
The Nevada Senate, after emotional floor debate, approved a bill Tuesday allowing terminally ill patients to request life-ending medication from their physicians.
A money committee heard conflicting, unpredictable projections Tuesday over how much revenue Nevada could lose if it imposes a ban on hydraulic fracking.
A man died Friday at the scene of a single-vehicle rollover crash in Jean.
Flooding may be the big concern in much of Nevada now, but the thoughts of state and federal officials on Tuesday were on fire. Specifically wildland fires and what 2017 will bring to the Silver State.
The NFL had pushed the Stadium Authority Board to complete the lease before the owners met for their annual spring meetings in Chicago on Tuesday.
Theater veteran Frank Mack officially joins festival management Sept. 1, but he plans to be in Cedar City in early July when the festival launches its 56th season, which runs from June 29 to Oct. 21.
One person is dead after an officer involved shooting early Tuesday morning in Pahrump.