A senior member of the House Aviation subcommittee, Rep. Dina Titus backed the FAA Reauthorization Act, which will provide funding for general aviation airports.
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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.
Without any discussion, the Assembly voted 36-6 at 11:47 p.m. Sunday to collect $620 million in additional taxes over the next two years by extending four taxes that otherwise would have expired June 30.
Nevada mining companies will have fewer tax deductions and more government oversight under a bill that moved Sunday in the Legislature. Senate Bill 493 was one of two controversial mining-related measures that Democrats pushed to rein in what they perceive to be an industry that pays too few taxes.
The five budget bills that fund state government and education for the next two years received final approval Sunday in the Legislature and will be forwarded to Gov. Brian Sandoval to be signed into law.
With the Assembly’s passage Saturday of a $2.2 billion two-year public education spending bill, Clark County schools might avoid laying off teachers or increasing class sizes, a top administrator said.