Washoe County filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy this week, seeking to block plans to downsize operations and relocate its outgoing mail processing facility from Reno to Sacramento.
Nevada
Seven jails are now fully in compliance with a law that requires the facilities create a process for inmates to vote while in jail.
Workers in Nevada will see a bump in the state’s minimum wage this summer.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
The Clark County sheriff became the 12th GOP contender in the primary.
A district judge in Lyon County has nullified part a new state law banning untraceable firearms assembled from kits, finding that some provisions are too vague to be enforced.
Legislative Democrats pushed the majority party’s congressional and state redistricting proposals through the Senate Sunday, sending the plan to the Assembly for promised minor amendments and a likely final vote on Monday.
A Reno man accused of using Twitter to send hundreds of politically fueled death threats, racial smears and other harassing messages to Democratic state officeholders has been arrested.
The order, covering Department of Corrections employees and those working with at-risk populations in state-operated detention and health care facilities, takes effect Nov. 1.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton made the announcement to a crowd of some 4,000 at the Adam Laxalt-sponsored sixth annual Basque Fry at the Corley Ranch.
In fits and starts, lawmakers on Friday moved some 80 bills through committees ahead of an end-of-day deadline as the Legislature closed in on its final two weeks of session.
Touching on one of 2020’s biggest domestic issues, the Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would reform the rules for police use of force.
Halfway through his first term as Nevada governor, Steve Sisolak has $4.5 million in campaign cash on hand after more than doubling his coffers in 2020.
The Nevada Poll™ finds that nearly half of Nevadans disapprove of how Gov. Steve Sisolak has handled the coronavirus crisis, while 46 percent approve of his actions.