Seven jails are now fully in compliance with a law that requires the facilities create a process for inmates to vote while in jail.
Politics and Government
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.
Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the case, set sentencing for July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
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.
“The common cause that we have to address is climate change induced lower flows,” commission Chair Anne Castle said. “That’s what we have to work on together. It’s not an enemy that we can defeat. It’s one that we have to live with.”
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the deportation protections for immigrants brought into this country illegally as children are unlawful and remanded the case to a lower court.
Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald has been served with a federal grand jury subpoena for records of any communications with top advisers of former President Donald Trump.
FBI agents are sending the cellphone they seized from Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald to Washington, D.C. as part of a probe into Jan. 6, 2021.
A proposal sought by Democratic U.S. senators — including Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen — to reduce federal gas taxes won’t bring relief for Nevada residents.
High levels of contamination in Nevada were found at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs and particularly at Nellis Air Force Base, which landed on a Superfund clean-up list under the Environmental Protection Agency.
President Joe Biden will visit Las Vegas this weekend to attend a memorial service for former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, a source with knowledge of the arrangements confirmed.