Nevada Politics

The Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) will hold foster/adoptive parent training on Saturday and Sunday and Jan. 24 in Carson City. Each day runs from 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Training sessions will be held at C...

P.K. O’Neill concedes that Assembly Republicans got off to a rocky start this season. First, while they were expected to gain seats in the lower house, not even the most perceptive pundits thought they’d take the maj...

Shown at Gov. Brian Sandoval’s inaugural on Monday are John D. Rupert, an eighth-grade student at Eagle Valley Middle School and Ayleen Perry, mistress of ceremonies at the ceremony. She is a senior at Canyon Sprin...

Nevada’s major casinos continued their recovery in Fiscal Year 2014. But total revenue of $23.9 billion — while up more than $820 million over the year before — still was less than 2007’s peak of $25.3 billion. The statistics w...

The Nevada Indian Commission has scheduled a Tribal Legislative Forum for Jan. 15 at the Stewart complex in south Carson City. Sherry Rupert, executive director of the commission, said the purpose is to learn more about the leg...

The Department of Motor Vehicles is upgrading the security on temporary vehicle tags to make them less vulnerable to fraud. Temporary tags are issued when a new or used vehicle is purchased from a dealer until the owner can off...

Senate Democrats have hired their first-ever communications director for the upcoming legislative session. Minority Leader Aaron Ford of Las Vegas said Peter Koltak will help the caucus “reinforce our message that middle class ...

LAS VEGAS — A convicted pedophile’s complaint about Nevada prison food has the state Supreme Court ordering an accounting of what’s in unnamed sack lunches and “chef’s choice” dinners given to inmates, and whether the meals are...

The fact Nevada’s gaming win was flat in November compared to a year ago is actually good, not bad. Gaming Control board Analyst Mike Lawton said November 2013 was “a significant tough comparison.” A year ago, Game and Table wi...

Conservative activist Chuck Muth has registered a Political Action Committee to try to recall Assembly Speaker Designate John Hambrick from office. Hambrick, a Republican, was re-elected in District 2. It includes the western s...

A total of 284 people died in traffic crashes during 2014. That is 18 more than were killed the previous year. A spokesman for the Nevada Department of Transportation said fatalities have increased in recent years af...

Gov. Brian Sandoval recognized John Matthews as Nevada’s December 2014 Veteran of the Month in a recent presentation at the state capitol. Nevada Department of Veterans Services manages the monthly program. “As I r...

Newly elected Churchill County officials were sworn in Monday at the Churchill County Commissioners’ first meeting of 2015. County clerk/treasurer Kelly Helton swore in the elected officials, wh...

Gov. Brian Sandoval told a crowd of more than 200 he would dedicate his second four-year term to Nevada’s young people and their education. He made th...

The first County Commission meeting of January will be conducted Monday at 8:15 a.m. at the Churchill County Administration Building chambers, 155 N. Taylor St. Among the items commissioners will discuss and that a...

There are now nearly 11,000 Nevada Sesquicentennial license plates on the road, making the plate honoring the state’s 150th anniversary of statehood one of the most popular in DMV’s inventory. The dark blue plate with a full-co...

The Nevada Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision issued Wednesday, lifted the injunction preventing Reno from laying off 32 firefighters. The layoffs were ordered in May after the federal gover...

James Hardesty will assume the title of Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court with the new year. Hardesty takes over from Justice Mark Gibbons in the post, which rotates among the justices each year. Justices become eligibl...

The Nevada Rural Housing Authority is offering an online course in the responsibilities of owning a home. The court, titled “After the close — Homeowner Education,” was originally created for new homeowners who take advantage o...