A senior member of the House Aviation subcommittee, Rep. Dina Titus backed the FAA Reauthorization Act, which will provide funding for general aviation airports.
Nevada
The Las Vegas Review-Journal owner and majority shareholder of Las Vegas Sands Corp. will be a major backer of the Preserve America super PAC.
Nevada’s 13,000 home care workers could see big increases to minimum wage and reimbursement rates under legislative proposals presented.
Nevada officials, including Gov. Joe Lombardo and Sen. Jacky Rosen, have urged the U.S. Postal Service to reconsider plans to move the mail center to California.
The ACLU of Nevada said seven jails, including several in the Las Vegas Valley, are now complying with a law requiring a process for inmates to vote while in jail.
More than 80 new laws became effective in Nevada on January 1, including increased fines for tobacco sales to underage people.
Higher* Archy became the first Black female-owned independent consumption lounge after regulators approved its license last month.
The loan will be used to form a fund for charter school operators to expand existing facilities and build new schools in the state.
The vice president’s stop in Southern Nevada is part of a “Fight for Our Freedoms” College Tour and includes a moderated conversation at the College of Southern Nevada.
State Treasurer Zach Conine made the announcement just three years after the rainy day fund was drained in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sen. Dina Neal of North Las Vegas created a legal defense fund on Aug. 17.
Nevada’s largest state employee union is suing Gov. Joe Lombardo for vetoing a bill that would have funded a cost of living pay increase approved by state officials.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that she was hired by a nonprofit a month after lawmakers voted to appropriate $250,000 to it.
Joey Gilbert will now serve as the Douglas County School District’s legal counsel after its Board of Trustees voted to select his law firm for the job.
The school district’s trustees are set to consider hiring a former gubernatorial candidate’s law firm as its legal counsel.