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?
Nevada
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.
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.
CARSON CITY — Every Republican and Democratic legislator voted Monday to override Gov. Jim Gibbons’ veto of a bill that requires the Public Employees Retirement System to disclose its investments with companies doing oil business in Iran.
CARSON CITY — Las Vegas and the Department of Transportation must spend as much as $70 million to reopen F Street in the historic black community of West Las Vegas, senators decided late Monday in overriding a veto by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
CARSON CITY — Ending on time for the first time in a decade, the Nevada Legislature early this morning concluded its biennial session with little drama, having finished its major piece of business — the budget — a week and a half ahead of time.
CARSON CITY — Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie, D-Reno, might have said it best.
The state Senate on Sunday passed a bill that would give limited collective bargaining rights to state workers.
CARSON CITY — Gambling and tourism industry lobbyists succeeded Sunday in 11th-hour efforts to get the Nevada Assembly to endorse a partial rollback of a voter-approved ban on smoking in public places.
CARSON CITY — The state Senate finished passing the budget through the Legislature over the objections of Gov. Jim Gibbons and made Gibbons the most overridden governor in Nevada history on Sunday.
CARSON CITY — Only a handful of spectators watched Sunday night as the Assembly voted 28-14 to override Gov. Jim Gibbons’ veto of a bill that establishes a domestic partnership law in Nevada. That vote, with the Senate’s 14-7 rejection of the veto Saturday, makes Senate Bill 283 a law that takes effect on Oct. 1.
Slide show of legislative session
CARSON CITY — Look ahead from this legislative session to the next, and you see a gaping abyss.
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