Seven jails are now fully in compliance with a law that requires the facilities create a process for inmates to vote while in jail.
Politics and Government
Workers in Nevada will see a bump in the state’s minimum wage this summer.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the case, set sentencing for July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
Nearly all public employee union contracts contain a clause allowing disputes to be worked out by an independent arbitrator.
FBI and state agents are trying to determine whether there was criminal pay-to-play influence in the awarding of lucrative cannabis dispensary, cultivation and production licenses.
The Nevada DMV will continue its scandal-plagued computer modernization program despite the state Supreme Court striking down a key funding source.
Nevada recorded more than 5,000 excess deaths after COVID-19 struck, according to a 50-state national study.
Federal officials have not shared formula determining each state’s weekly COVID-19 vaccine allocation, the head of the state’s response effort said Monday.
Anxious Nevada residents eager for the potentially life-saving vaccine are frustrated after attempts to make appointments amid inconsistent communication from coordinating agencies.
Nevada is experiencing a fall surge that is spreading faster than its summer surge. Nearly half of the state’s cases have been reported since mid-September.
Republicans have alleged widespread voter fraud because of Nevada’s mail-in ballots. A review of facts found few irregularities that could have swayed the results.
Police are conducting a criminal investigation into allegations that a Las Vegas assemblyman misused campaign funds and failed to live in his district, the Review-Journal has learned.
The 2018 donations occurred around the time the lawyer, Brian C. Padgett, improperly took about $152,000 of a client’s money, campaign records show.