The state Assembly on a 35 to 7 vote supported increasing the hotel room tax by 3 percentage points in Clark and Washoe counties.
Fiscal analysts say the tax would bring in $233 million in the next two years. Gov. Jim Gibbons has already indicated his support and has included the revenue in his two-year budget.
All 28 Democrats and 7 of 14 Republicans supported the proposal, which now goes to the Senate for action.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicted Tuesday that there could be chaos in the skies next week if the government shutdown drags on and air traffic controllers miss a second paycheck.
After the rare rebuke from the grand jury, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office charged Sean Charles Dunn instead with a misdemeanor.
Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.
“It has never quite met the promise of what it has been stated to give,” Georgia lawmaker Marvin Lim said in a Monday afternoon webinar.
A key issue at trial was whether Black Lives Matter demonstrator Jorge Gomez had pointed a rifle at police.
An unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Dayanne Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Chicago Tribune show.
A gifted comic and dramatic performer, she had a long career in television and on stage before breaking through as a film performer in Martin Scorsese’s 1974 release “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”
With Monday’s return, the bodies of 270 Palestinians have been handed back since the start of the ceasefire.
Gov. Joe Lombardo on Monday toured a mammoth food bank in North Las Vegas that supplies more than 150 dispensaries in Southern Nevada.
A new police report is recommending changes to policing methods after a man detonated a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel on Jan. 1.
