State officials plan to hire probation and parole specialists to work in prisons with inmates who are eligible for parole but stuck behind bars because they lack necessities like a place to live, legislative committees heard Tuesday.
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A panel of state lawmakers received a crash course Tuesday on Nevada’s complex public education funding plan in advance of detailed budget hearings in the 120-day legislative session that begins Monday.
Lawmakers are girding for a battle in the Senate over the president’s pick of federal appellate Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Nevada commission charged with overseeing nuclear waste issues on Tuesday warned that it expects Congress to seek funding to revive the shuttered Yucca Mountain repository project this year.
The state retirement board voted Tuesday to appeal a judge’s order requiring it to release the names and pension information of tens of thousands of retired public workers.
Nevada will share in a $5 million, multistate settlement with The Western Union Company over complaints customers were scammed into wiring money to third-parties in fraudulent schemes, the attorney general’s office said Tuesday.
Some legislators think Nevada women are cheap dates.
President Donald Trump’s picks for Energy and Interior departments, of high interest to Nevadans, advance to Senate floor.
Billionaire casino owner Steve Wynn will become finance chairman of the Republican National Committee at the behest of President Donald Trump. The RNC would not confirm reports by LifeZette and Fox News.
Two-thirds of the completed applications for the state’s Education Savings Account program come from households making less than $50,000 a year, data provided Monday by the state treasurer’s office shows.