State and national Democrats are leading a lawsuit that seeks to block Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from appearing on Nevada’s presidential ballot, citing state law.
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The Washoe County District Attorney’s Office says the family of Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks will host a Celebration of Life in his memory in Reno next week.
A district court judge approved a motion to dismiss the fake electors case, pointing to issues with jurisdiction.
Regent Donald McMichael made comments at a Nevada System of Higher Education board meeting this month that many considered antisemitic.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on Nevadans to vote for President Joe Biden and cast former President Donald Trump as a danger to abortion access.
Rosen told the Review-Journal she will hold virtual roundtable discussions and meetings with residents of the state’s 17 counties over a seven-day period, beginning Friday.
Lawmakers from the District of Columbia and Maryland are seeking the removal of a plaque honoring a former U.S. senator from Nevada who voiced ardent white supremacist views.
Nevada lawmakers joined governors and mayors seeking federal coronavirus aid for states and cities facing dire budget shortfalls.
Bob Halstead, who fought Yucca Mountain on behalf of the state of Nevada for decades, has decided to retire as the federal government puts plans for the waste repository on hold.
As the coronavirus ravages state budgets, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto plans to push for the Senate to take up a House bill to provide local governments with federal assistance.
Because of ridership reductions in the coronavirus era, Amtrak is reducing passenger rail service, including a line that runs between Salt Lake City and Reno and serves rural Nevada.
The public lands legislation also includes conservation, but environmental groups and Native American tribes are still opposed.
Nevada airports will receive $231 million from an aid package passed by Congress to battle the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, transportation officials announced.
Nevada lawmakers tried to create a new roadblock to transforming Yucca Mountain into a nuclear waste repository on Thursday by introducing bills in the House and Senate that would require the government to study alternative uses of the site.
A university-owned nuclear reactor in Arkansas is being contained after cleanup efforts and readied for transport to the Nevada National Security Site where it will be disposed.