One year ago this week, Nevada’s most powerful federal representative died, but he still continues to play a major role in Silver State politics.
Jessica Hill
Former Politics Reporter
Several laws passed in the last legislative session are set to go into effect at the start of the new year, including one that does away with criminalizing minor traffic violations.
More than $167 million in community project funding from the omnibus package will support 85 programs in Nevada, said Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto.
Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald repeatedly pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions before the House select-committee regarding scheme to send fake Electoral College certificates to Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a bill that aims to prevent another president from trying to retain power after losing an election.
The U.S. Senate approved Thursday the proposed expansion of the U.S. Navy’s Fallon Range Training Complex.
Outgoing Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske complied with a Justice Department subpoena seeking records of communications with former President Donald Trump’s lawyers and others, part of an investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Nevada students will get free lunches again next school year, and state employees will get reimbursed for their COVID-19 furloughs, the Interim Finance Committee decided Thursday.
The Data Mapping to Protect Moms Lives Act calls for locating areas where there is both a lack of access to broadband and high maternal mortality rates.
President Joe Biden signed legislation enshrining same-sex and interracial marriages into federal law. Nevada’s delegation voted in favor, with the exception of Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev.
The Justice Department subpoenaed Clark County’s elections department for communications from former President Donald Trump’s attorneys on the 2020 election.
Paul Anderson, senior vice president of government and industry affairs for Boyd Gaming, is the new chairman of the Vegas Chamber.
Elizabeth Ray, who served as his spokesperson for his campaign, will be part of the governor-elect’s administration when it begins in January.
Ilse Zuniga came to the U.S. at 11 months old. She now sends out messaging on public health information to Americans.
Veronika Henriques received her green card in the mail, only to be told later that it was issued by mistake and must be returned, another setback in a yearslong fight to become a permanent resident of the United States.