Women will make up 40 percent of the Legislature in 2017, tying Nevada with Colorado and Vermont as the states with the highest percentage of women legislators. That will benefit all Nevadans, they say.
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Nevada’s six Democratic presidential electors cast their ballots Monday for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, who won the state by 2 percentage points over Republican Donald Trump in the November election.
Even after 81 years, stubborn myths still cling to the colossal construction effort that built Hoover Dam. But the most incredible story about the project is absolutely true.
Sen. Harry Reid heard tributes from Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Reid’s successor as minority leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer, in a ceremony for the unveiling of a portrait of Reid that will hang in the Capitol.
Millions of Americans made their way back home Sunday after a long Thanksgiving weekend, facing minimal stress and strain as they traveled by air, rail or road.
About 80 protesters parade from the state Capitol to nearby Wells Fargo bank branch.
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked an Obama administration rule to extend mandatory overtime pay to more than 4 million workers from taking effect, imperiling one of the outgoing president’s signature achievements for boosting wages.
Hillary Clinton captured state with 47.92 percent of the vote, marking only the second time in 108 years Nevadans didn’t side with the president-elect.
Although all four people aboard were killed when a medical aircraft went down in Northern Nevada, police say the pilot likely saved lives by crashing the plane into a parking lot while avoiding nearby homes and businesses.
A dearth of hospitals and medical professionals, an increasingly strained emergency care network and sharply escalating costs are threatening the quality of life in many of the state’s small towns and communities.
An air-ambulance plane taking a heart-disease patient to a Utah hospital crashed in a parking lot in northern Nevada, killing all four people aboard and sending up explosions and flames.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says a plane carrying four people crashed Friday evening in Elko.
Roughly 300,000 Nevadans in small towns like Tonopah or rural communities are facing a dearth of hospitals or other medical care facilities.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was hustled off stage at a rally Saturday but returned after a brief, hectic interlude involving someone attending the event.
Reno police are investigating a shooting that killed one girl and injured two teenage boys early Sunday.