A bipartisan bill aims to help Nevada nonprofits like the YMCA expand affordable child care access and reduce long waitlists for working families.
Politics and Government
The 2026 election will be a crowded field as all District and Family Court seats will be on the ballot in Clark County.
Officials said the overhaul to the federal vaccine schedule won’t result in any families losing access or insurance coverage for vaccines, but medical experts slammed the move.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that he censured Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over the former Navy pilot’s participation in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders.
The criminal case in Manhattan is unfolding against the diplomatic backdrop of an audacious U.S.-engineered regime change that President Donald Trump has said will enable his administration to “run” the South American country.
Federal funding for Meals on Wheels in Southern Nevada is about $2.4 million, or 62 percent of total funding for the program. But federal funding could soon disappear under the Trump administration’s 2018 budget plans.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical attack on children was so horrible that it changed how President Donald Trump looked at Damascus.
If lawmakers had their way, every Nevada school would teach financial literacy, diversity studies and the benefits of organ donations. High school wouldn’t start until 9:30 a.m. and every student would have access to dual credit courses for free.
It’s make or break time for lawmakers pushing their bills in the 2017 session of the Nevada Legislature.
It may be deadline week for Nevada legislative committees to act on bills, but that isn’t stopping lawmakers from loading up the calendar with hearings on dozens of measures introduced last month.
Nevada lawmakers talked about a range of issues in the ninth week of the legislative session that included juvenile justice reforms, stronger oversight of higher education, fracking and bestiality.
State workers turned out Friday to support a bill granting them collective bargaining rights, but the bill is opposed by Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval and faces a likely veto if it is passed by the Democratic Legislature.
Clark County is back on track for a July 1 roll out of recreational marijuana. The state plans to issue licenses that would allow currently operating medical marijuana dispensaries to sell recreational weed starting on that date.
Nevada is getting closer to taking its battle against cyberattacks to a new level.
Citing the goal of reducing recidivism and saving money, Sen. Majority Leader Aaron Ford introduced a bill this week that would catapult the College of Southern Nevada back into the business of educating offenders.