The unemployment rate edged up to a still-low 4%, from 3.9%, ending a 27-month streak of unemployment below 4%, the Labor Department said Friday.
Politics and Government
The Henderson City Council on Tuesday approved giving a 3.5 percent bonus to City Manager Richard Derrick.
Henderson and North Las Vegas soon will be able to sponsor and oversee charter schools, after the Nevada Department of Education gave its blessing this week.
A political action committee says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ineligible to appear on the November ballot unless he resubmits his petition to comply with Nevada law.
The Henderson City Council on Tuesday approved Resolution 48, which adds a ballot question asking residents whether they want to fund Fire Department improvements and maintenance.
A Nevada assemblywoman introduced a bill this week that would prohibit restaurants from automatically serving water to customers.
The park service has extended the deadline for comments on various proposals for how to manage and maintain launch ramps for motorized boaters at Lake Mead.
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager John Entsminger are demanding more details about how the federal government will deal with the western drought.
Sonya Douglass Horsford is speaking on Twitter about her displeasure that the congressman is running for re-election after he has admitted to a long-running affair with a former intern.
Proposals that could allow for a safe injection site pilot program and significantly alter medical pricing in Nevada were introduced Monday among 91 new bills.
The legislation comes amid concerns of a potential torrent of evictions in Nevada caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Steve Sisolak says Nevada will go into a “statewide pause” for three weeks as the coronavirus continues its wildfire-like spread across Nevada.
A conservative group is suing to stop the June 9 all-mail primary election, alleging that it invites voter fraud and would dilute the votes of legitimate voters.
Assembly Bill 226, sponsored by Assemblyman Skip Daly, D-Reno, would prohibit requiring a person to have a microchip or other permanent identification marker implanted inside of them.
Days after a man who authorities said is in the U.S. illegally was arrested in connection with four slayings, Nevada’s congressional delegation has not weighed in as the killings add fuel to the debate over immigration and border security.