Nevada Politics

State Sen. Debbie Smith made her session debut in the Nevada Senate on Wednesday and was welcomed by ovations, cheers and tears following her treatment for a malignant brain tumor....

Former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto on Wednesday will announce she’s running for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s seat in 2016, according to a Democratic insider....

Worried that Councilman Stavros Anthony was giving Her Honor a real race, Mayor Carolyn Goodman's team hired targeting expert Billy Rogers, who produced devastating mailers that may have turned the tide.
The race is nonpartisan. But it became partisan....

A bill that would extend the statute of limitations in cases of sexual assault from four to 20 years was approved Wednesday by the Nevada Assembly Judiciary Committee....

Sen. Dean Heller has stepped in to urge that a consultant for Nevada be given a seat on Thursday’s congressional tour of Yucca Mountain....

Las Vegas will have four more years of Goodman after Mayor Carolyn Goodman cruised to re-election Tuesday night over challenger Stavros Anthony, stretching her family's hold on the office to a fifth term. Goodman jumped out to a 52-45 lead over Anthony, a sitting Las Vegas City Councilman, in early...

Clark County government computer servers don’t store sensitive plans about upcoming feature films, like Sony Pictures Entertainment servers did when hackers breached the company and revealed emails with embarrassing comments about celebrities, but it and other government agencies are increasingl...

A Senate committee has passed a bill backed by Gov. Brian Sandoval that would implement a broad anti-bullying program throughout Nevada's school system ......

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman took an early lead over Stavros Anthony in her re-election battle Tuesday night, according to a canvass of early and mail-in votes....

The Senate on Thursday passed Sen. Don Gustavson’s bill raising the maximum allowable speed limit in Nevada from 75 to 80 mph.Gustavson has tried repeatedly in several previous sessions to get a bill raising the maxim...

County officials turned out on Thursday to protest legislation that would hit them with at least $1.3 million a year in costs to care for mentally incompetent offenders housed at Lakes Crossing.Lakes is the state’s hi...

The Nevada Assembly approved on Monday AB 148, which allows holders of concealed carry weapons permits (CCW) to bring their firearm onto Nevada state universities and community colleges in order to protec...

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada says he is “sightless” in his injured right eye, and has grown accepting if his vision loss becomes permanent....

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel won a second term Tuesday in a runoff election that hinged on serious financial challenges facing the nation's third-largest city and ......

A Nevada Democrat is proposing legislation that would raise taxes on alcohol and tobacco to help fund substance abuse programs ......

Nevada State Board of Education member Alexis Gonzales-Black resigned last week after moving to California to launch a business venture....

An Assembly committee Tuesday considered a bill setting up procedures to check whether noncitizens who obtain Nevada driver authorization cards show up on voter registration rolls....

Errors from Nevada’s roll-out of the Affordable Care Act continue to make life difficult for consumers now trying to file taxes....

A false report of a man carrying a gun caused a brief disruption at a Henderson voting site Tuesday, police said....

With only a few hours left before the polls close, turnout for this year's municipal primary elections remains low. as Vegas, which features the most races has seen ......

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, just four days after launching his 2016 White House bid, will visit Las Vegas on Saturday to promote himself as a “new kind of Republican” who’s for more personal freedom and less government intrusion in private lives....

Officials representing some of Nevada’s major industries, from car dealers to retailers to manufacturers, sat at the witness table in the Assembly Taxation Committee hearing room Tuesday to support an alternative tax measure to fund Gov. Brian Sandoval’s plan to improve public education....

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) launched his 2016 presidential campaign and online campaign store Tuesday, and it’s filled with all sorts of oddly original campaign items....

Republican leaders say some bills advancing conservative priorities are not expected to live past a legislative deadline this week. Assembly Majority Leader Paul Anderson said Tuesday that bills to repeal Common Core education standards and ......

Clark County commissioners approved a $1.5 million budget for the next fiscal year for the Mt. Charleston Fire Protection District as officials continue working on transitioning away from receiving fire service Nevada Division of Forestry....

Lawmakers are considering a measure that would make it easier for homeowners to kick squatters off their property. Democratic Assemblyman Edgar Flores and ......

Assembly Bill 165, one part of the Republican governor’s ambitious education agenda, authorizes $10.5 million in tax credits over the upcoming two-year budget cycle. The total would increase 10 percent per year thereafter....

Assembly Bill 280, sponsored by Assemblyman Ervin Nelson, R-Las Vegas, is the most sweeping measure aimed at making changes to the state collective bargaining law in the 2015 session....

When the Assembly tax bill is heard Tuesday, members of the Just Say No to Taxes Every Session Caucus will testify for the measure, thus showing true consensus growing around Gov. Brian Sandoval's budget number of $7.3 billion....

Nevada Republicans are sponsoring a bill that would allow local governments to opt out of future collective bargaining agreements with their employees. Assemblyman Erv Nelson is sponsoring AB280 and testified ......