UNLV’s Immigration Clinic which represents hundreds of immigrants may be at risk of shutting its doors if it doesn’t secure additional funding from a Nevada Legislature bill.
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Bills pending in the 2023 Legislature must pass from the first committee to which they were sent by Friday, which means this week will be a busy one for lawmakers in Carson City.
Teachers may be required to cut down on time spent preparing and administering certain standardized tests under a bill considered by lawmakers Thursday.
The operator of WSOP.com says there could be costly consequences to developing a list of online poker cheaters similar to the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s “Black Book.”
Nurses from more than 30 states could see their licenses honored in Nevada under a bill heard by lawmakers Friday.
Lawmakers heard more than five hours of at times contentious testimony on a trio of bills related to firearms Thursday afternoon.
Assembly Bill 456 seeks to avoid an event like the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment from happening in Nevada by prohibiting the operation of trains that are more than 7,500 feet in length.
In 2021, Nevada banned the use of sirens that once sounded as signals for nonwhite people to leave a town before sundown. But nearly two years later, one such controversial relic still blares out each night in Minden.
Lawmakers and advocates are urging the passage of several bills related to gender-affirming care and LGBTQ rights.
State licensing boards may soon be barred from denying an applicant based on their criminal history under a bill considered by lawmakers Wednesday.
A bill sponsored by state Sen. Melanie Scheible would give people experiencing homelessness a way to get a temporary mailing address.
State senators will soon be asked to consider a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to take part in medically assisted death.
State workers will receive two $500 bonuses this year under a bill signed by Gov. Joe Lombardo Tuesday.
State lawmakers on Monday took up consideration of bill that would cap the price of certain prescriptions.
The Owyhee Combined School was built in the 1950s adjacent to a hydrocarbon plume, and tribal leaders believe it is the cause of more than 100 of its members getting cancer.