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.
Las Vegas and North Las Vegas city councils this week approved a .5-percentage point hotel room tax hike to help fund a $1.4 billion expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Henderson council OK’d an ordinance for that increase as well as a half-percentage point tax hike to help pay for a new football stadium.
A Nevada lawmaker said Thursday she is comforted by assurances from the Obama administration that personal information by undocumented immigrant minors won’t be used against them later in deportation hearings.
The Nevada Department of Taxation is asking for a loan of nearly $900,000 from a legislative account to fund startup costs for the implementation of the recreational marijuana law passed by voters in November.
Roughly 370,000 Nevadans would lose health insurance by 2019 under tentative Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, an independent think tank said Thursday.
Continued investment in the UNLV School of Medicine, property tax reform and regionalizing mental health services are among the priorities Southern Nevada lawmakers plan to push for during the 2017 Nevada Legislature session.