Months after applying for an education savings account, William Simms walked into Mountain View Christian School last Tuesday morning armed with an approval letter for his granddaughter’s early enrollment in Nevada’s new school choice program.
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Call it an ironic political twist of fate. A constitutional amendment spearheaded more than a decade ago by a conservative Republican to take politics out of Nevada education funding is now at the heart of a legal battle that could upend a conservative GOP ideal — public funding for school choice.
In a shortened legislative week, the Senate blocked a bill to lift restrictions on Federal Reserve audits while the House approved bills challenging the Obama administration on environmental regulations, defying its veto threats.
Randy Johnston’s crowning achievement sits upon a dusty mountaintop in desolate Esmeralda County, looking more like a castle than one man’s desire to poke a stick in the eye of every construction inspector who ever cramped his builder’s style.
A California woman claims her former bookkeeper wrongfully transferred more than $180,000 from her bank accounts to Leslie Parraguirre, who is married to Nevada Supreme Court Justice Ron Parraguirre, and Leslie Parraguirre’s interior design company.
Attorney General Adam Laxalt on Friday filed an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn a state judge’s decision to put the brakes on the state’s controversial education savings accounts.
A small, locally owned Las Vegas rooftop-solar company announced Thursday it is cutting jobs and reducing hours due to the adoption of a new net metering rate by state regulators that took effect Jan. 1.
If you want to see bald eagles, you need to head north to a place like Alaska, Washington or Lake Mead’s Overton Arm.
Pepper spray, batons and rubber bullets are replacing shotguns and birdshot to quell disturbances at Nevada prisons in the wake of a series of shootings that left one inmate dead and several others injured.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the city of Fernley challenging the constitutionality of a local government tax distribution formula.
Nevadans driving to Primm or even Baker, Calif., for the chance to buy a lottery ticket in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing might wonder why they can’t just drive to their local convenience store to make the purchase.
State officials Tuesday approved $475,000 to settle a complaint over censorship of inmate publications that was initially addressed in a lawsuit filed 15 years ago.
Boulder City Police Chief Bill Conger has left his post after a blowup with people close to the criminal investigation into the former city animal control head accused of needlessly killing animals, the Review-Journal learned Monday.
A state judge Monday put the brakes on Nevada’s education savings accounts, granting an injunction sought by opponents who said it would drain critical funding resources from Nevada’s public schools and is unconstitutional.
The state Board of Transportation on Monday approved a $76 million contract with a company to design and build a new road to improve access to the Tesla battery plant now under construction in Northern Nevada.