Nevada elections officials delivered on promises of faster election returns Tuesday, with several major races already called Tuesday night.
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Deputy City Attorney Rebecca Wolfson was leading two other attorneys and in a position to possibly win the race outright to serve as a judge on the Las Vegas Municipal Court.
Races for Clark County School Board will likely advance to the general election, preliminary election results show.
Preliminary primary election results showed Republican candidate April Becker and Democrat Shannon Bilbray-Alexrod ahead in their respective primaries.
The Associated Press calls the GOP primary in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District for Drew Johnson.
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the most powerful Nevadan ever elected to federal office and the longest-serving U.S. senator in state history, died Tuesday.
The states fear interim waste storage sites could become permanent, and say Yucca Mountain remains the country’s only designated repository.
Clark County District Judge Cristina Silva and UNLV law professor Anne Traum both answered questions at a hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Haaland’s visit is part of a five-day swing through Western states to discuss the ongoing drought.
The Department of Energy plan would send waste to jurisdictions where state and local governments support interim storage.
One of the bills, co-sponsored by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., was modeled after Nevada programs that provide confidentiality to those seeking mental health counseling.
Camille Touton, a Nevada resident, was appointed to the post by President Joe Biden in January.
The nominations of state Judge Cristina Silva and UNLV law professor Anne Traum on Wednesday now go to the Senate Judiciary Committee for review and a confirmation hearing.
The measure, approved by a House committee on Tuesday, also would require the TSA to come up with better ways to communicate with those with vision or hearing impairment.
A federal investigative report on nuclear waste disposal is recommending Congress amend a decades-old law designating Yucca Mountain as the sole location for disposal