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Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill Thursday imposing a cooling-off period before lawmakers who leave office can return to the Nevada Legislature to lobby their former colleagues....

Two years after passing a law to set up medical marijuana dispensaries in Nevada, state lawmakers are trying to massage the rules to fix unintended consequences of the process....

Nevada lawmakers grilled administration officials Monday about Gov. Brian Sandoval’s “Plan B” tax proposal, with most queries focused on how a new commerce tax will be implemented and enforced....

Time is running out for Nevada lawmakers. With adjournment one week away, they must confront and resolve the biggest issues that have been percolating all session....

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers have approved a measure that would repeal a state law requiring overtime pay after eight hours of work.

A bill to shield grade-school students from discipline for bringing tiny toy guns to school or nibbling their breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun received final legislative approval Friday....

Members of the legislative money committees voted on Wednesday to revive the foreclosure mediation program for the coming two years.The program was created at the height of the recession when Nevada had the nation’s h...

Assembly Minority Leader Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, told the Ways and Means Committee Tuesday local governments are cheating the state out of sales tax by buying materials for construction pr...

Sen. Harry Reid and Sen. Dean Heller are millionaires, and details of how they stay that way are contained in personal finance reports that lawmakers are required to file each May 15 with Congress....

While the debate over how to fund Gov. Brian Sandoval’s 2015-17 budget remains unresolved, lawmakers on Saturday finished work on his $7.4 billion general fund spending plan by approving the public education budget....

One of the last major deadlines of the 2015 Legislature hits today: committee passage in the second house of all legislation not granted an exemption.That means all non-exempt bills which originated in the Assembly mu...

During my eight years as District Attorney of Carson City, I never hesitated to prosecute people who broke the law. But no matter how many convictions I won, I knew then as I know now that our streets will be a lot safer if we prevent more people from turning to crime in the first place.

New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Monday said he would resign his leadership post a week after being charged in a corruption scheme involving his son, and was replaced by a fellow senator from Long Island, two lawmakers said....

The Senate voted last week to give Congress a voice over the nuclear agreement being negotiated with Iran. The bill would give lawmakers a month to review the pact being negotiated among Iranian leaders, Secretary of State John Kerry, and representatives of Russia, China, France, Germany and the...

Carson City’s Alan Glover and the late Peggy Pierce of Las Vegas were inducted into the Assembly Wall of Distinction on Friday.They bring the total membership of that club to 16 former lawmakers and outstanding staff....

By spending excess reserves and eliminating the wellness program, Nevada lawmakers were told on Thursday the state will be able to provide workers with the same health benefits they now receive at a slightly lower cos...

A poll of 300 likely Nevada voters suggests that state lawmakers could suffer at the polls come election time next year if they do not support expanding rooftop solar efforts through a net metering program....

Nevada lawmakers delayed action on the biggest project in the proposed Capital Improvement Projects budget Tuesday amid questions whether to turn control over the hotel college construction to University of Nevada, La...

A spokesman for the Peace Officers Research Association on Monday urged lawmakers not to approve pay raises for Nevada’s elected county officials saying employee bargaining groups haven’t gotten guaranteed raises duri...

I've never seen anything like this in writing during a legislative session -- a letter to elected officials from a bunch of lawyers on a measure that would allow hearsay evidence into certain criminal proceedings:...

Labor groups said Friday that if Nevada lawmakers want to require local governments to publicize proposed union contracts before ratifying them, the mandate should be extended to all contracts....

Former Nevada State Senators Terry Care, Dean Rhoads and Randolph Townsend were inducted into the Senate Hall of Fame Wednesday in recognition of their long service to the state.Rhoads served as a lawmakers longer tha...

A long-stalled bill that aims to combat human trafficking passed the Senate on Wednesday with the fingerprints of several Nevada lawmakers....

The Bundy Family is angry that lawmakers have changed a bill presented by Michele of the Thousand Tax Liens to, you know, make it legal. Barely
So what's happening now is lawmakers are being urged to vote NO on the measure that once was declared unconstitutional (um, federal supremacy) by every lawy...

A budget amendment allowing the state to directly run its only juvenile maximum-security facility raised concerns among lawmakers who said Nevada can’t afford another failure at the now-closed Clark County site....

Lawmakers in the Nevada Assembly unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that would allow terminally ill patients to try experimental drugs as a last-resort treatment. Nevada would become ......

With Republicans now in charge on both sides of Capitol Hill, lawmakers who want a new life for the Yucca Mountain project launched their latest bid on Wednesday to fund the Nevada nuclear waste site....

U.S. lawmakers asked Hillary Clinton in 2012 if she used a personal email account for government business while secretary of state, but never received an answer, according to letters released on Wednesday....

Nevada lawmakers hope to prevent sage grouse from landing on the Endangered Species List by taking aim at ravens, which are notorious egg-snatchers ......

A bill that would impose a cooling-off period for state lawmakers in Nevada who want to become paid contract lobbyists at the Legislature won unanimous approval in the Assembly on Tuesday and now heads to the Senate....