Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state.
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Direct investments into mining companies have come without needed congressional oversight, three lawmakers say.
There have been increased calls by critics of Homeland Security to require all of the department’s officers who are responsible for immigration enforcement to wear body cameras.
The jobs report and other key economic statistics were previously delayed by a record 43-day government shutdown last fall.
President Donald Trump said Sunday he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for two years starting in July for construction.
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.