Five-year projections, which the Bureau of Reclamation releases three times a year, are showing that snowpack may have boosted Lake Mead.
Politics and Government
Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, cast Donald Trump as a threat to democracy and threw their support behind Pres. Joe Biden during an event in Las Vegas Wednesday.
Environmentalists have filed an application with the federal government to list the Amargosa toad, found only in the Oasis Valley northwest of Las Vegas, as an endangered species.
The jury of seven men and five women was sent to a private room just before 11:30 a.m. to begin weighing a verdict in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president.
District Judge Joanna Kishner ordered Meta to provide more information to the state of Nevada on its policies regarding children on its platforms.
Attention will shift from committee rooms to the floor of the Assembly and Senate as lawmakers rush to meet a Friday deadline to pass bills.
Slow progress on bills, major last-minute tax credit proposals and partisan tensions make many in Carson City think a special session will be necessary.
Lawmakers approved bills changing the way presidential votes are cast, protecting election workers from harassment and allowing inmates in jail to vote.
Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bipartisan bill to repeal COVID-era health regulations.
A poll conducted this month by the Clark County Education Association found that Superintendent Jesus Jara has much higher unfavorables than favorables.
Lawmakers will take up a bill to provide public assistance for a proposed baseball stadium, as well as one to subsidize film companies that locate in Southern Nevada.
Plans for the A’s $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat stadium at the Tropicana resort site call for the baseball diamond to face northwest.
A state Senate committee Tuesday approved a resolution to amend the constitution to award Nevada’s six Electoral College votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
The event was meant to highlight Assembly Bill 400, which would expand the program from its $6.6 million per fiscal year to 0.5 percent of the state Education Fund.
The Nevada Legislature enters the 14th week of the session looking at bills that would change the way the state awards presidential electors, medical malpractice damage caps and big fines for selling tobacco to minors.