Henderson Mayor Michelle Romero and challenger Hollie Chadwick urged residents to support a proposal that seeks to continue funding for the city’s parks facilities.
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Clark County is planning to build its own supplemental animal shelter to tackle overpopulation and overcrowding in recent years at the space it contracts along with regional cities.
State lawmakers were disappointed that representatives from Boring Co. and Gov. Lombardo’s office weren’t present during a meeting about violations during the construction of the Vegas Loop.
The House on Tuesday passed a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package to end the partial government shutdown, sending the measure to President Donald Trump.
William “Bill” Carns, a former Nye County Republican Central Committee chairman, was arrested last weekend by the Nye County Sheriff’s Office on multiple offenses.
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.
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CARSON CITY — Look ahead from this legislative session to the next, and you see a gaping abyss.
CARSON CITY — A bill changing rules for qualifying questions for the ballot won state Senate approval Sunday despite arguments by a lawmaker who said it was improved but still could interfere with Nevadans’ constitutional rights.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons’ veto-mania has given the Legislature an unusual slate of end-of-session business.