Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state.
Politics and Government
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.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel voted unanimously Tuesday for an Assembly-approved plan imposing fines that could add up to $1 million, besides any criminal penalties, on sex traffickers who lure or force children into prostitution.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s two biggest counties are fighting a proposal to redirect property taxes from the county to the state. The measure is one of several on an "ugly list" that lawmakers are considering to help fill the state’s budget hole.
CARSON CITY — On a party-line vote, the Assembly Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday for a bill to give domestic partners, whether gay or straight, many of the rights and benefits that Nevada offers to married couples.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly has passed a bill to create a funding stabilization account for K-12 education.
CARSON CITY — The capstone of the state’s next two-year budget finally fell into place late Tuesday as lawmakers agreed to spend about $300 million more than Gov. Jim Gibbons had proposed on the state’s higher education system.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly voted Tuesday for a judge-protection bill that was sought by a Reno judge wounded by a man who was going through a contentious divorce and had just killed his estranged wife.
CARSON CITY — A disgusted county lobbyist said Monday that the University Medical Center will go another $40 million in the red and smaller counties like Lincoln could go bankrupt because of the Legislature’s decision taking $50 million that rightfully belongs to counties and hospitals.
CARSON CITY — After hours of closed-door meetings, frustrated legislators called it a night Monday, having failed to reach accord on the higher education budget.
CARSON CITY — A bill to let voters decide whether to legalize a state lottery appears to be dead after the chairman of the Senate committee in control of the bill said members do not want to conduct a hearing on it.
CARSON CITY — North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue infuriated state worker groups last month when she signed legislation cutting salaries for teachers and state employees by 0.5 percent.