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The Nevada Supreme court sided with a district court judge’s ruling in favor of the Oakland Athletics regarding an effort to put the team’s Las Vegas ballpark public financing on November’s ballot.
Plans to turn Yucca Mountain into the nation’s nuclear waste repository have long received opposition from both sides of the aisle. But, is that changing?
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.
Gov. Joe Lombardo and other Nevada officials wrote a letter opposing the plan, which they fear could impact elections and the local economy.
The Nevada Senate approved a proposal Thursday to take the Board of Regents out of the state constitution and put the board’s legal authority in state law and under the direction of the Legislature.
The Nevada Assembly unanimously passed a bill that expands the mandatory reporting and background check requirements for public school employees.
Trump’s budget plan calls for first round of military base closures, realignments since 2005, but many in Congress have little appetite for the politically charged game of winners and losers.
The Nevada Assembly on Thursday voted 26-14 on a resolution that asks Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would rein in independent political campaign spending.
A bill requiring law enforcement officers statewide to wear body cameras was signed into law Thursday by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The sponsor of Senate Bill 488, which would add offenses to Nevada sex trafficking laws, wants to punish people involved in sex trafficking.
Private schools were exempted Thursday from a bill expanding anti-bullying training to include gender orientation and identity.
No. 1 GOP donors to be feted on June 7 as National Republican Campaign Committee gears up for 2018 midterm elections.
Nevada’s Republican Sen. Dean Heller distanced himself from President Donald Trump’s budget proposal on Wednesday, saying he is working with a bipartisan group to preserve Medicaid spending in states that expanded the program.
A bill seeking to resurrect Nevada’s rooftop solar industry would create new costs of more than $48 million a year over the 20-year life of the measure, an NV Energy analysis shows.