Following the Supreme Court ruling overturning a ban on bump stocks, Sen. Jacky Rosen joined in on a bill to ban the gun accessory.
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New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plans to talk about abortion rights and housing at a Biden-Harris campaign event in Las Vegas.
Will Republican Sam Brown manage a victory over Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen in the fall? There’s a lot of factors at play.
Attorney General Aaron Ford said Nevada will be receiving upwards of $6 million in the settlement relating to allegations of “deceptive trade practices.”
Races have been called for the Senate primary and all four congressional seats. The last race was called Wednesday night.
Rising temperatures have sapped more than 10 trillion gallons of water from the Colorado River over the last two decades, a recent study shows.
Nevada is the first state in the nation to give a local water agency the power to limit individual home water use.
The budget includes nearly $400 million for major construction projects across the valley aimed at improving the resiliency and capacity of the valley’s water system.
The Nevada Assembly voted 30-12 in favor of a wide-ranging water conservation bill that could lead to caps on residential water use in Las Vegas.
After dropping more than 50 feet since 2000, latest forecasts show Lake Mead rising by roughly 22 feet by the end of the year.
If approved, the legislation would make Nevada the first state to give a local water agency permanent say over how much water residents can use.
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.
A bill would create a new program to use satellite imagery to estimate how much water is lost to evapotranspiration from crops.
“Disastrous conditions have reshaped Lake Mead National Recreation Area’s one and a half million acres of incredible landscapes and slowly depleted the largest reservoir in the United States,” the senators wrote in a letter to the National Park Service.
Southern Nevada Water Authority would have the authority to impose water use restrictions on the biggest users under a bill heard by the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
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