Will Republican Sam Brown manage a victory over Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen in the fall? There’s a lot of factors at play.
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Operation Summer Shield 2024, a multi-jurisdictional sex offender verification operation, took place June 3-7, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Earmarks, oinks and pork-barrel spending. Enough to make you squeal, “Enough.”
Reno police said Friday that could still be weeks before any information about the crash is revealed.
Bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns, were used in mass shootings like the one that killed 60 people in Las Vegas.
The Clark County Commission on Tuesday appointed two women to fill vacant seats in the state Assembly, making Nevada the first state in the country with a female-majority Legislature.
The Clark County Commission is expected on Tuesday to appoint two candidates to fill vacant Assembly seats in districts 10 and 11, emptied after incumbents left to pursue different offices.
With three post-election vacancies filled last week, Nevada’s Legislature remains two short of a full complement for the coming legislative session.
Fourteen legislators ran uncontested in the Nov. 6 election, in addition to the five appointments. That means voters didn’t have a choice to pick 19 lawmakers in the general election.
Gregory Hafen II, the general manager of Pahrump Utility Company Inc., was appointed to fill the vacant Assembly District 36 on Friday in a joint meeting of three county commissions, Nye County spokesman Arnold Knightly said.
House Republicans are preparing to interview James Comey behind closed doors Friday, hauling the former FBI director to Capitol Hill one final time before they cede power to Democrats in January.
The Nye County commission voted 4-1 to nominate Gregory Hafen II, who was also selected this week by the commissions of Lincoln and Clark counties, to take the Nevada Assembly 36 seat won by Denis Hof, the brothel owner who died before Election Day.
The Clark County Commission created another vacancy in the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday when they appointed an assemblyman to the state Senate.
Diaz’s departure means the Clark County Commission will have to appoint four members to the Legislature ahead of the 2019 session, which begins Feb. 4.
Legislators bemoaned the gaps in Nevada’s health care system, but didn’t present specific plans for a fix at a panel discussion in Las Vegas on Friday.