GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown said he opposes Yucca Mountain, following pressure on both sides after audio captured his support for the nuclear waste repository.
- Home
- >> News
- >> Politics and Government
Nevada
Officials broke ground in Las Vegas’ Historic Westside for a College of Southern Nevada facility designed to help people get into high-demand industries.
Early voting begins Saturday for the June 11 primary. Here’s what you need to know.
These are eight legislative races Southern Nevadans should know about.
Early voting for the June 11 primary began May 25 and ends June 7. Here’s what your ballot might look like if you’re a nonpartisan voter.
Senate Republicans on Friday filed a lawsuit in Carson City seeking to invalidate two bills passed by the 2019 Legislature.
Elected officials and advocates on Monday celebrated a new law that will allow convicted felons to vote once they are released from prison.
The list of accomplishments includes new laws that strengthen domestic violence penalties, create a sexual assault survivors bill of rights and permanent funding for rape kit testing.
Governor Steve Sisolak signed a bill to raise the minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2024, as well as bills aimed at fair pay for women and one to ensure all workers at companies with 50 or more employees get a week’s paid sick leave each year.
Assemblyman Jim Wheeler, R-Minden, resigned as minority leader Tuesday, citing personal reasons.
A bill to require organizations that donate more than $10,000 to a candidate in any election cycle was approved by the state Senate on Monday.
The first major overhaul of Nevada’s education funding formula in more than five decades is itself getting a re-write in the Assembly Ways & Means Committee on the session’s final day.
The Nevada Legislature passed the first of five budget bills on Sunday, a move that signals the beginning of the end of the 2019 session that’s set to close at midnight Monday.
Gov. Steve Sisolak signed a bill requiring pharmaceutical companies to disclose information about asthma drug prices, similar to a bill passed in 2017 that targeted diabetes drug costs.
Gov. Steve Sisolak’s first use of the veto blocked a bill that would have added Nevada to a roster of states seeking to elect the U.S. president by a national popular vote.