Former President Donald Trump tossed his support behind John Lee ahead of the June 11 primary.
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A senior member of the House Aviation subcommittee, Rep. Dina Titus backed the FAA Reauthorization Act, which will provide funding for general aviation airports.
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.
While Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada announced “without reservation” his support for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his Democratic counterpart, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, said she wants a thorough review of past rulings, opinions and writings.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told disbelieving Hispanic lawmakers Wednesday that her department would meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite immigrant children separated from parents due to Trump administration policies.
Lawmakers negotiating a final defense bill excluded a provision that would have prohibited the Interior Department from placing the sage grouse, in Nevada and other states, on the endangered species list for a decade.
Senate Republicans want to fast-track the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but those hopes could be dashed by Democrats demanding to review documents from his past as White House staff secretary and deputy to special counsel Ken Starr.
Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Thursday he had no reservations and would likely vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
A congressional tour of Yucca Mountain last weekend spurred Las Vegas business leaders to fan across the nation’s capital Wednesday and lobby lawmakers and the Trump administration against storing nuclear waste in Nevada.
President Donald Trump responded Tuesday to bipartisan condemnation of his dismissal of U.S. intelligence findings and “clarified” his comments to say he accepted conclusions that Russians meddled in the presidential election.
Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., will lead about a dozen other House members — all proponents of the project — on the tour of the proposed storage site for the nation’s high-level nuclear waste.
Legislation introduced by Nevada Rep. Dina Titus would honor Frazier, the first woman to serve as Nevada’s lieutenant governor and an influential Southern Nevada educator.
The political divide over the Supreme Court vacancy was on full display Tuesday as Republicans praised nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and influential Democrats rallied in opposition on the steps of the nation’s highest court.
