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.
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Monday address got mixed reviews from members of a focus group recruited by Strategic Solutions, a consulting firm, for Impact Nevada, a collaboration of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, 8NewsNow and Vegas PBS.
Assemblyman Pat Hickey isn’t a true freshman taking a seat for the first time at the 2011 Legislature. But there is a world’s difference between the Assembly in which the Reno Republican served in 1997 and the one he will enter on Feb. 7.
CARSON CITY — Former U.S. Attorney Greg Brower, ex-state Treasurer Patty Cafferata and former state Tax Commission Chairwoman Barbara Smith Campbell head up the known list of candidates applying to replace Bill Raggio in the state Senate.
CARSON CITY — Eight years ago Ben Kieckhefer took a seat in the press gallery in the rear of the state Senate chambers as a reporter covering the Legislature for The Associated Press.
A bill in the works for the upcoming legislative session aims to thwart methamphetamine makers by making legal drugs with certain ingredients available by prescription only. The bill would require customers to have a prescription from a doctor to purchase cold medicines that contain ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine.
Elizabeth Halseth is among the most unlikely of Carson City newcomers. The newly elected senator for District 9 in Clark County has only lived in Nevada since 2006, doesn’t have deep political connections, didn’t study politics in college and wasn’t endorsed by either major newspaper in her Las Vegas-area district in the general election.