Legislation that would allow mining companies to use public land regardless of whether mineral deposits have been found on the land passed the House and will head to the Senate.
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Leaders representing Northern Nevada sent a letter to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors to reverse a decision to relocate its outgoing mail operations.
ChatGPT wrote a poem about Nevada’s politics and was asked to include important landmarks. Here’s what it gave.
Reps. Susie Lee and Steven Horsford joined 13 other House Democrats in urging President Biden to take executive action on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada accused Elko County of failing to create a process for inmates to vote while in jail.
Eleven candidates emerged by a Monday deadline to replace former state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, the former Senate majority leader whose resignation last week created a sudden vacancy in his district.
Legislators in Carson City heard an introduction on a bill Monday that would provide children covered under Medicaid with one year of uninterrupted coverage from the date of their enrollment in the case that they become ineligible — for example, through an increase in a parent’s income.
A Trump administration request to revive the licensing process at Yucca Mountain includes funds to hire 77 lawyers for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Former Nevada Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud charge Monday, less than a week after resigning from his post.
President Donald Trump again will propose funding to restart the licensing process to make Yucca Mountain a nuclear waste repository Monday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
In the Nevada state capital, legislative business starts Monday on a lighter note — literally — as the Assembly Government Affairs committee takes up Assembly Bill 182 , which would designate neon the state’s official element.
California is now the lone holdout on an emergency drought plan for the Colorado River, and the other river states are turning up the heat to get the deal done.
Nevada Democrats are proposing changes to their presidential caucus that could dramatically alter the way candidates compete in the state, opening the process to an early-vote and virtual participation.
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.
Commercial fossil hunters and others who remove historic or culturally significant artifacts from state lands could see tougher penalties under a measure that seeks to conform state law with its federal counterpart.