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.
Former Republican Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert of Reno is being accused of illegally keeping unspent campaign money and then disposing of it improperly.
CARSON CITY — Sen. Tick Segerblom made his case for annual legislative sessions Tuesday, arguing lawmakers could do their jobs better by meeting every year rather than every other year as the state constitution mandates.
CARSON CITY — Nevadans would be able to support public education by “toking up ” if a bill introduced Monday becomes law.
CARSON CITY — A bill that would allow the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue “driver privilege cards” to undocumented immigrants was introduced with bipartisan support in the state Senate on Monday.
Today will be the first day in the 43-day-old 2013 legislative session when lawmakers work late into the evening.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill designed to provide a fairer distribution of sales, cigarette, liquor and other state taxes to cities and counties.
CARSON CITY — Declaring a “brass knuckles” approach to johns, Assemblyman John Hambrick introduced a bill Friday calling for life sentences for people who solicit minor prostitutes.
CARSON CITY — The Legislature’s legal counsel on Friday asked the Nevada Supreme Court for more time to respond to troubled lawmaker Steven Brooks’ demand to serve in the Legislature, saying the petition filed on his behalf “is lacking in cogent legal argument.”
CARSON CITY — The man who killed four people in a IHOP restaurant in 2011 was a “paranoid schizophrenic” and “gun nut” who wrote a high school paper on gun safety, Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong told legislators Friday.
Secretary of State Ross Miller told lawmakers Thursday that his plan to include a photo of each registered voter in new electronic poll books would improve ballot access and not disenfranchise voters.