Nevada gets less than a 2 percent cut from the Colorado River’s waters, but the state actually uses far more water than that each year.
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The Nevada secretary of state’s office has again rejected a proposal by Nye County to hand-count ballots before Election Day on Tuesday, saying the plan still has significant risks.
A new water rate structure that will impose hefty levies on the valley’s biggest residential water users was approved Tuesday by a Southern Nevada municipal water board.
Five miles of “immediate relief” is coming for drivers who make the congested trek along Interstate 15 from Las Vegas to Southern California.
Gov. Steve Sisolak on Friday signed a trio of bills that will “profoundly” affect Native Americans in the state, including waiving university fees for some native students and banning racially discriminatory school mascots and so-called “sundown sirens.”
George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley, who testified in impeachment hearings on Wednesday, has a long history in Nevada, including representing workers at the secret Area 51 base near Groom Lake.
A proposed constitutional amendment would take the responsibility of drawing districts away from the Legislature and giving it to an independent commission.
The American Bar Association, the ACLU of Nevada, public defenders and law professors are all urging the Nevada Supreme Court to ban the death penalty for people who suffer from severe mental illness.
Assembly Bill 411 would overhaul Nevada’s traffic laws by taking jail time off the table for a slew of common minor violations — speeding and broken taillights — and obscure ones.
Nevada’s nascent recreational marijuana industry could be in danger with the rescinding of a federal memo seen as the sole protector for state-regulated pot markets.