Despite the president’s election-eve comments suggesting a change in his stance on nuclear waste storage in Nevada, the state and political opponents are preparing for another administration and congressional push to revive the Yucca Mountain licensing process.
President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday to offer America’s support and to grieve with survivors of a deadly synagogue shooting as the Jewish community began burying its dead with funerals for three of the 11 victims.
Heroic stories about those who tried to save Jewish worshippers amid gunfire and chaos emerged Monday as the community tried to begin healing following the tragic synagogue shooting that claimed 11 lives.
An overwhelming sense of anguish was palpable throughout a suburb of this industrial city Sunday as the community flocked for a second evening to pay tribute to the victims of a synagogue slaying here.
With less than two weeks before the midterm election, analysts for a nonpartisan group that promotes civic participation projected Wednesday that 7.8 million Latinos will vote this year.
Sen. Dean Heller has a slight lead in his re-election bid against Jacky Rosen, but likely Nevada voters are motivated to cast a ballot against President Donald Trump, giving Democrats opportunity to take the GOP seat, according to a new poll out Wednesday.
Nevada Democrats seized Tuesday on President Donald Trump’s wobble on Yucca Mountain, urging him to follow through with his campaign-season equivocation and keep the nuclear repository in Nevada in a mothballed state.
LGBT leaders were quick to mount a response and protest Monday to a Trump administration proposal for a new definition of gender that activists said would strip transgender Americans of civil rights and protections.
A Democratic takeover of the House in November would likely mean the elevation of Rep. Dina Titus of Las Vegas to chair of an oversight committee with investigative powers and increased scrutiny of President Donald Trump’s real estate holdings in the nation’s capital.
Immigration policies by the Trump administration are fueling interest among Latino voters in the upcoming midterm election, a new poll shows.
A university-owned nuclear reactor in Arkansas is being contained after cleanup efforts and readied for transport to the Nevada National Security Site where it will be disposed.
With less than 30 days before Nov. 6, the midterm election is largely seen as a referendum on Trump’s performance, which political strategists on both sides claim has energized their voter base.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh took his seat on the Supreme Court, listening to oral arguments Tuesday as the angry crowds venting rage at his confirmation and the conservative tilt of the bench dwindled to just a few angry protesters.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate to be an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday, ending a monthslong battle that laid bare the political divisions of a polarized nation and a nomination stained by uncorroborated allegations of sexual misconduct.
“We’re still recovering from the events that took place on 1 October,” Nevada’s junior senator says. “We’re still grieving for the family members who are no longer with us.”
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Residents throughout the Las Vegas Valley were reacting to the news that Donald Trump had become the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes.
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.
Trump is expected to appeal the verdict and will face an awkward dynamic as he returns to the campaign trail tagged with convictions.
Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
