Clark County commissioners approved the appointment of Nancy Lemcke, a 23-year veteran public defender, to lead the office.
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Clark County commissioners voted to award nine applicants a total of $66.25 million from a county housing fund.
Social media platforms have enabled critics to see just how twisted many of the woke pro-Hamas protesters are.
Clark County received just one sidewalk vending license application during the first six days the ordinance was in effect.
A controversial proposal for a Church of Latter-day Saints temple near Lone Mountain still has a ways to go in its quest for approval, city officials said.
The measure, known as “Marsy’s Law,” would modify Nevada’s Constitution with 16 rights for victims, including the right to privacy, notification of all public hearings, the right to full and timely restitution and the right to refuse an interview or deposition request unless under court order.
Democrats seized control of the House on Tuesday while Republicans increased their majority in the Senate in a midterm election that fell short of a massive “blue wave” but served as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s policies and his first years in office.
Nevada voters apparently were thinking pink when they voted Tuesday on Question 2.
Rep. Beto O’Rourke didn’t go quietly to defeat. Thanking his campaign supporters for their spirited challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz, he said on live television Tuesday: “All of you, showing the country how you do this. I’m so f—-ing proud of you guys.”
Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated a little-known Republican opponent Tuesday in a congressional district representing part of New York City and, at 29, could become the youngest woman elected to Congress.
The House is getting its first two Muslim women and Massachusetts is getting its first black congresswoman while Arizona and Tennessee stand to elect their first woman senators in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Democrat Sharice Davids unseated Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder in Tuesday’s election to become the nation’s first LGBT and Native American woman in Congress.
Most Florida felons who have finished their sentences will be able to vote again in future elections.
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney handily won a U.S. Senate seat in his adopted home state of Utah on Tuesday after a campaign where he backed off his once-fierce criticism of President Donald Trump.
As voting nears an end in Nevada, Review-Journal studio host Aaron Drawhorn, Colton Lochhead and Ramona Giwargis discuss the midterm elections.